From: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com>
To: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Raghavendra Rao Anata <rananta@google.com>,
Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: Destroy the stage-2 page-table periodically
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:51:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250724235144.2428795-1-rananta@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
When destroying a fully-mapped 128G VM abruptly, the following scheduler
warning is observed:
sched: CPU 0 need_resched set for > 100018840 ns (100 ticks) without schedule
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9617 Comm: kvm_page_table_ Tainted: G O 6.16.0-smp-DEV #3 NONE
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE
Call trace:
show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x3c/0xb8
dump_stack+0x18/0x30
resched_latency_warn+0x7c/0x88
sched_tick+0x1c4/0x268
update_process_times+0xa8/0xd8
tick_nohz_handler+0xc8/0x168
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x11c/0x338
hrtimer_interrupt+0x104/0x308
arch_timer_handler_phys+0x40/0x58
handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x1b0
generic_handle_domain_irq+0x48/0x78
gic_handle_irq+0x1b8/0x408
call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x30
do_interrupt_handler+0x54/0x78
el1_interrupt+0x44/0x88
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x28
el1h_64_irq+0x84/0x88
stage2_free_walker+0x30/0xa0 (P)
__kvm_pgtable_walk+0x11c/0x258
__kvm_pgtable_walk+0x180/0x258
__kvm_pgtable_walk+0x180/0x258
__kvm_pgtable_walk+0x180/0x258
kvm_pgtable_walk+0xc4/0x140
kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy+0x5c/0xf0
kvm_free_stage2_pgd+0x6c/0xe8
kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu+0x24/0x48
kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all+0x80/0xa0
kvm_mmu_notifier_release+0x38/0x78
__mmu_notifier_release+0x15c/0x250
exit_mmap+0x68/0x400
__mmput+0x38/0x1c8
mmput+0x30/0x68
exit_mm+0xd4/0x198
do_exit+0x1a4/0xb00
do_group_exit+0x8c/0x120
get_signal+0x6d4/0x778
do_signal+0x90/0x718
do_notify_resume+0x70/0x170
el0_svc+0x74/0xd8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x60/0xc8
el0t_64_sync+0x1b0/0x1b8
The host kernel was running with CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y, and since the
page-table walk operation takes considerable amount of time for a VM
with such a large number of PTEs mapped, the warning is seen.
To mitigate this, split the walk into smaller ranges, by checking for
cond_resched() between each range. Since the path is executed during
VM destruction, after the page-table structure is unlinked from the
KVM MMU, relying on cond_resched_rwlock_write() isn't necessary.
Patch-1 splits the kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy() function into separate
'walk' and 'free PGD' parts.
Patch-2 leverages the split and performs the walk periodically over
smaller ranges and calls cond_resched() between them.
Thank you.
Raghavendra
Raghavendra Rao Ananta (2):
KVM: arm64: Split kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy()
KVM: arm64: Destroy the stage-2 page-table periodically
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 19 ++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 23 ++++++++++++--
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
3 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
base-commit: 19272b37aa4f83ca52bdf9c16d5d81bdd1354494
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2.50.1.470.g6ba607880d-goog
next reply other threads:[~2025-07-24 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-24 23:51 Raghavendra Rao Ananta [this message]
2025-07-24 23:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: Split kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy() Raghavendra Rao Ananta
2025-07-29 15:57 ` Oliver Upton
2025-08-08 18:57 ` Oliver Upton
2025-07-24 23:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: Destroy the stage-2 page-table periodically Raghavendra Rao Ananta
2025-07-25 14:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-07-25 16:22 ` Raghavendra Rao Ananta
2025-07-29 16:01 ` Oliver Upton
2025-08-07 18:58 ` Raghavendra Rao Ananta
2025-08-08 18:56 ` Oliver Upton
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