Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin apic access page in memory.

Gleb Natapov
2014-07-15T14:40:31Z

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 08:54:01PM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> On 07/15/2014 08:40 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 08:28:22PM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> >>On 07/15/2014 08:09 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>>On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 01:52:40PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>......
> >>>>
> >>>>I cannot follow your concerns yet. Specifically, how should
> >>>>APIC_ACCESS_ADDR (the VMCS field, right?) change while L2 is running? We
> >>>>currently pin/unpin on L1->L2/L2->L1, respectively. Or what do you mean?
> >>>>
> >>>I am talking about this case:
> >>> if (cpu_has_secondary_exec_ctrls()) {a
> >>> } else {
> >>> exec_control |=
> >>> SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES;
> >>> vmcs_write64(APIC_ACCESS_ADDR,
> >>> page_to_phys(vcpu->kvm->arch.apic_access_page));
> >>> }
> >>>We do not pin here.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Hi Gleb,
> >>
> >>
> >>7905 if (exec_control&
> >>SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES) {
> >>......
> >>7912 if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) /* shouldn't
> >>happen */
> >>7913 nested_release_page(vmx->nested.apic_access_page);
> >>7914 vmx->nested.apic_access_page =
> >>7915 nested_get_page(vcpu,
> >>vmcs12->apic_access_addr);
> >>
> >>I thought you were talking about the problem here. We pin
> >>vmcs12->apic_access_addr
> >>in memory. And I think we should do the same thing to this page as to L1 vm.
> >>Right ?
> >Nested kvm pins a lot of pages, it will probably be not easy to handle all of them,
> >so for now I am concerned with non nested case only (but nested should continue to
> >work obviously, just pin pages like it does now).
>
> True. I will work on it.
>
> And also, when using PCI passthrough, kvm_pin_pages() also pins some pages.
> This is
> also in my todo list.
Those pages are (almost) directly accessible by assigned PCI devices,
I am not sure this is even doable.

>
> But sorry, a little strange. I didn't find where vmcs12->apic_access_addr is
> allocated
> or initialized... Would you please tell me ?
handle_vmwrite() writes it when guest is executing vmwrite(APIC_ACCESS_ADDR);

>
> >
> >>
> >>......
> >>7922 if (!vmx->nested.apic_access_page)
> >>7923 exec_control&=
> >>7924 ~SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES;
> >>7925 else
> >>7926 vmcs_write64(APIC_ACCESS_ADDR,
> >>7927 page_to_phys(vmx->nested.apic_access_page));
> >>7928 } else if
> >>(vm_need_virtualize_apic_accesses(vmx->vcpu.kvm)) {
> >>7929 exec_control |=
> >>7930 SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES;
> >>7931 vmcs_write64(APIC_ACCESS_ADDR,
> >>7932 page_to_phys(vcpu->kvm->arch.apic_access_page));
> >>7933 }
> >>
> >>And yes, we have the problem you said here. We can migrate the page while L2
> >>vm is running.
> >>So I think we should enforce L2 vm to exit to L1. Right ?
> >>
> >We can request APIC_ACCESS_ADDR reload during L2->L1 vmexit emulation, so
> >if APIC_ACCESS_ADDR changes while L2 is running it will be reloaded for L1 too.
> >
>
> apic pages for L2 and L1 are not the same page, right ?
>
If L2 guest enable apic access page then they are different, otherwise
they are the same.

> I think, just like we are doing in patch 5/5, we cannot wait for the next
> L2->L1 vmexit.
> We should enforce a L2->L1 vmexit in mmu_notifier, just like
> make_all_cpus_request() does.
>
> Am I right ?
>
I do not see why forcing APIC_ACCESS_ADDR reload during L2->L1 exit is not enough.

--
Gleb.