[PULL 37/41] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure we don't miss dirty pages

Alexander Graf
2014-05-30T12:43:07Z

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Current, when testing whether a page is dirty (when constructing the
bitmap for the KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl), we test the C (changed) bit
in the HPT entries mapping the page, and if it is 0, we consider the
page to be clean. However, the Power ISA doesn't require processors
to set the C bit to 1 immediately when writing to a page, and in fact
allows them to delay the writeback of the C bit until they receive a
TLB invalidation for the page. Thus it is possible that the page
could be dirty and we miss it.

Now, if there are vcpus running, this is not serious since the
collection of the dirty log is racy already - some vcpu could dirty
the page just after we check it. But if there are no vcpus running we
should return definitive results, in case we are in the final phase of
migrating the guest.

Also, if the permission bits in the HPTE don't allow writing, then we
know that no CPU can set C. If the HPTE was previously writable and
the page was modified, any C bit writeback would have been flushed out
by the tlbie that we did when changing the HPTE to read-only.

Otherwise we need to do a TLB invalidation even if the C bit is 0, and
then check the C bit.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
---
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
index 96c9044..8056107 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
@@ -1060,6 +1060,11 @@ void kvm_set_spte_hva_hv(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva, pte_t pte)
kvm_handle_hva(kvm, hva, kvm_unmap_rmapp);
}

+static int vcpus_running(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+ return atomic_read(&kvm->arch.vcpus_running) != 0;
+}
+
/*
* Returns the number of system pages that are dirty.
* This can be more than 1 if we find a huge-page HPTE.
@@ -1069,6 +1074,7 @@ static int kvm_test_clear_dirty_npages(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp)
struct revmap_entry *rev = kvm->arch.revmap;
unsigned long head, i, j;
unsigned long n;
+ unsigned long v, r;
unsigned long *hptep;
int npages_dirty = 0;

@@ -1088,7 +1094,22 @@ static int kvm_test_clear_dirty_npages(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp)
hptep = (unsigned long *) (kvm->arch.hpt_virt + (i << 4));
j = rev[i].forw;

- if (!(hptep[1] & HPTE_R_C))
+ /*
+ * Checking the C (changed) bit here is racy since there
+ * is no guarantee about when the hardware writes it back.
+ * If the HPTE is not writable then it is stable since the
+ * page can't be written to, and we would have done a tlbie
+ * (which forces the hardware to complete any writeback)
+ * when making the HPTE read-only.
+ * If vcpus are running then this call is racy anyway
+ * since the page could get dirtied subsequently, so we
+ * expect there to be a further call which would pick up
+ * any delayed C bit writeback.
+ * Otherwise we need to do the tlbie even if C==0 in
+ * order to pick up any delayed writeback of C.
+ */
+ if (!(hptep[1] & HPTE_R_C) &&
+ (!hpte_is_writable(hptep[1]) || vcpus_running(kvm)))
continue;

if (!try_lock_hpte(hptep, HPTE_V_HVLOCK)) {
@@ -1100,23 +1121,29 @@ static int kvm_test_clear_dirty_npages(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp)
}

/* Now check and modify the HPTE */
- if ((hptep[0] & HPTE_V_VALID) && (hptep[1] & HPTE_R_C)) {
- /* need to make it temporarily absent to clear C */
- hptep[0] |= HPTE_V_ABSENT;
- kvmppc_invalidate_hpte(kvm, hptep, i);
- hptep[1] &= ~HPTE_R_C;
- eieio();
- hptep[0] = (hptep[0] & ~HPTE_V_ABSENT) | HPTE_V_VALID;
+ if (!(hptep[0] & HPTE_V_VALID))
+ continue;
+
+ /* need to make it temporarily absent so C is stable */
+ hptep[0] |= HPTE_V_ABSENT;
+ kvmppc_invalidate_hpte(kvm, hptep, i);
+ v = hptep[0];
+ r = hptep[1];
+ if (r & HPTE_R_C) {
+ hptep[1] = r & ~HPTE_R_C;
if (!(rev[i].guest_rpte & HPTE_R_C)) {
rev[i].guest_rpte |= HPTE_R_C;
note_hpte_modification(kvm, &rev[i]);
}
- n = hpte_page_size(hptep[0], hptep[1]);
+ n = hpte_page_size(v, r);
n = (n + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
if (n > npages_dirty)
npages_dirty = n;
+ eieio();
}
- hptep[0] &= ~HPTE_V_HVLOCK;
+ v &= ~(HPTE_V_ABSENT | HPTE_V_HVLOCK);
+ v |= HPTE_V_VALID;
+ hptep[0] = v;
} while ((i = j) != head);

unlock_rmap(rmapp);
--
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