Re: [PATCH v6 02/12] Halt vcpu if page it tries to access is swapped out.

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:59:16AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 05:56:24PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > If a guest accesses swapped out memory do not swap it in from vcpu thread
> > context. Schedule work to do swapping and put vcpu into halted state
> > instead.
> > 
> > Interrupts will still be delivered to the guest and if interrupt will
> > cause reschedule guest will continue to run another task.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |   17 +++
> >  arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig            |    1 +
> >  arch/x86/kvm/Makefile           |    1 +
> >  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c              |   51 +++++++++-
> >  arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h      |    4 +-
> >  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |  109 +++++++++++++++++++-
> >  include/linux/kvm_host.h        |   31 ++++++
> >  include/trace/events/kvm.h      |   88 ++++++++++++++++
> >  virt/kvm/Kconfig                |    3 +
> >  virt/kvm/async_pf.c             |  220 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  virt/kvm/async_pf.h             |   36 +++++++
> >  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c             |   57 ++++++++--
> >  12 files changed, 603 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 virt/kvm/async_pf.c
> >  create mode 100644 virt/kvm/async_pf.h
> > 
> 
> > +	async_pf_cache = NULL;
> > +}
> > +
> > +void kvm_async_pf_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > +{
> > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vcpu->async_pf.done);
> > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vcpu->async_pf.queue);
> > +	spin_lock_init(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void async_pf_execute(struct work_struct *work)
> > +{
> > +	struct page *page;
> > +	struct kvm_async_pf *apf =
> > +		container_of(work, struct kvm_async_pf, work);
> > +	struct mm_struct *mm = apf->mm;
> > +	struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = apf->vcpu;
> > +	unsigned long addr = apf->addr;
> > +	gva_t gva = apf->gva;
> > +
> > +	might_sleep();
> > +
> > +	use_mm(mm);
> > +	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> > +	get_user_pages(current, mm, addr, 1, 1, 0, &page, NULL);
> > +	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> > +	unuse_mm(mm);
> > +
> > +	spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
> > +	list_add_tail(&apf->link, &vcpu->async_pf.done);
> > +	apf->page = page;
> > +	spin_unlock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
> 
> This can fail, and apf->page become NULL.
> 
> > +	if (list_empty_careful(&vcpu->async_pf.done))
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	spin_lock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
> > +	work = list_first_entry(&vcpu->async_pf.done, typeof(*work), link);
> > +	list_del(&work->link);
> > +	spin_unlock(&vcpu->async_pf.lock);
> > +
> > +	kvm_arch_async_page_present(vcpu, work);
> > +
> > +free:
> > +	list_del(&work->queue);
> > +	vcpu->async_pf.queued--;
> > +	put_page(work->page);
> > +	kmem_cache_free(async_pf_cache, work);
> > +}
> 
> Better handle it here (and other sites).
Yeah. We should just reenter gust and let usual code path handle error
on next guest access.

--
			Gleb.

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