Re: [PATCH kernel v7 7/7] powerpc/mm/iommu, vfio/spapr: Put pages on VFIO container shutdown

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 05:52:05PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> At the moment the userspace tool is expected to request pinning of
> the entire guest RAM when VFIO IOMMU SPAPR v2 driver is present.
> When the userspace process finishes, all the pinned pages need to
> be put; this is done as a part of the userspace memory context (MM)
> destruction which happens on the very last mmdrop().
> 
> This approach has a problem that a MM of the userspace process
> may live longer than the userspace process itself as kernel threads
> use userspace process MMs which was runnning on a CPU where
> the kernel thread was scheduled to. If this happened, the MM remains
> referenced until this exact kernel thread wakes up again
> and releases the very last reference to the MM, on an idle system this
> can take even hours.
> 
> This moves preregistered regions tracking from MM to VFIO; insteads of
> using mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t::used, tce_container::prereg_list is
> added so each container releases regions which it has pre-registered.
> 
> This changes the userspace interface to return EBUSY if a memory
> region is already registered in a container. However it should not
> have any practical effect as the only userspace tool available now
> does register memory region once per container anyway.
> 
> As tce_iommu_register_pages/tce_iommu_unregister_pages are called
> under container->lock, this does not need additional locking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

> ---
> Changes:
> v7:
> * left sanity check in destroy_context()
> * tce_iommu_prereg_free() does not free tce_iommu_prereg struct if
> mm_iommu_put() failed; VFIO SPAPR container release callback now warns
> on an error
> 
> v4:
> * changed tce_iommu_register_pages() to call mm_iommu_find() first and
> avoid calling mm_iommu_put() if memory is preregistered already
> 
> v3:
> * moved tce_iommu_prereg_free() call out of list_for_each_entry()
> 
> v2:
> * updated commit log
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c |  4 +--
>  arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c    | 11 ------
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c    | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c
> index ad82735..73bf6e1 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_book3s64.c
> @@ -156,13 +156,11 @@ static inline void destroy_pagetable_page(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> -
>  void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SPAPR_TCE_IOMMU
> -	mm_iommu_cleanup(mm);
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&mm->context.iommu_group_mem_list));
>  #endif
> -
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_ICSWX
>  	drop_cop(mm->context.acop, mm);
>  	kfree(mm->context.cop_lockp);
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c
> index 4c6db09..104bad0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_iommu.c
> @@ -365,14 +365,3 @@ void mm_iommu_init(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU(&mm->context.iommu_group_mem_list);
>  }
> -
> -void mm_iommu_cleanup(struct mm_struct *mm)
> -{
> -	struct mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t *mem, *tmp;
> -
> -	list_for_each_entry_safe(mem, tmp, &mm->context.iommu_group_mem_list,
> -			next) {
> -		list_del_rcu(&mem->next);
> -		mm_iommu_do_free(mem);
> -	}
> -}
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> index 4c03c85..c882357 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.c
> @@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ struct tce_iommu_group {
>  };
>  
>  /*
> + * A container needs to remember which preregistered region  it has
> + * referenced to do proper cleanup at the userspace process exit.
> + */
> +struct tce_iommu_prereg {
> +	struct list_head next;
> +	struct mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t *mem;
> +};
> +
> +/*
>   * The container descriptor supports only a single group per container.
>   * Required by the API as the container is not supplied with the IOMMU group
>   * at the moment of initialization.
> @@ -102,6 +111,7 @@ struct tce_container {
>  	struct mm_struct *mm;
>  	struct iommu_table *tables[IOMMU_TABLE_GROUP_MAX_TABLES];
>  	struct list_head group_list;
> +	struct list_head prereg_list;
>  };
>  
>  static long tce_iommu_mm_set(struct tce_container *container)
> @@ -118,10 +128,27 @@ static long tce_iommu_mm_set(struct tce_container *container)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static long tce_iommu_prereg_free(struct tce_container *container,
> +		struct tce_iommu_prereg *tcemem)
> +{
> +	long ret;
> +
> +	ret = mm_iommu_put(container->mm, tcemem->mem);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	list_del(&tcemem->next);
> +	kfree(tcemem);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static long tce_iommu_unregister_pages(struct tce_container *container,
>  		__u64 vaddr, __u64 size)
>  {
>  	struct mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t *mem;
> +	struct tce_iommu_prereg *tcemem;
> +	bool found = false;
>  
>  	if ((vaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) || (size & ~PAGE_MASK))
>  		return -EINVAL;
> @@ -130,7 +157,17 @@ static long tce_iommu_unregister_pages(struct tce_container *container,
>  	if (!mem)
>  		return -ENOENT;
>  
> -	return mm_iommu_put(container->mm, mem);
> +	list_for_each_entry(tcemem, &container->prereg_list, next) {
> +		if (tcemem->mem == mem) {
> +			found = true;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!found)
> +		return -ENOENT;
> +
> +	return tce_iommu_prereg_free(container, tcemem);
>  }
>  
>  static long tce_iommu_register_pages(struct tce_container *container,
> @@ -138,16 +175,29 @@ static long tce_iommu_register_pages(struct tce_container *container,
>  {
>  	long ret = 0;
>  	struct mm_iommu_table_group_mem_t *mem = NULL;
> +	struct tce_iommu_prereg *tcemem;
>  	unsigned long entries = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  
>  	if ((vaddr & ~PAGE_MASK) || (size & ~PAGE_MASK) ||
>  			((vaddr + size) < vaddr))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> +	mem = mm_iommu_find(container->mm, vaddr, entries);
> +	if (mem) {
> +		list_for_each_entry(tcemem, &container->prereg_list, next) {
> +			if (tcemem->mem == mem)
> +				return -EBUSY;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
>  	ret = mm_iommu_get(container->mm, vaddr, entries, &mem);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> +	tcemem = kzalloc(sizeof(*tcemem), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	tcemem->mem = mem;
> +	list_add(&tcemem->next, &container->prereg_list);
> +
>  	container->enabled = true;
>  
>  	return 0;
> @@ -334,6 +384,7 @@ static void *tce_iommu_open(unsigned long arg)
>  
>  	mutex_init(&container->lock);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU(&container->group_list);
> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU(&container->prereg_list);
>  
>  	container->v2 = arg == VFIO_SPAPR_TCE_v2_IOMMU;
>  
> @@ -372,6 +423,14 @@ static void tce_iommu_release(void *iommu_data)
>  		tce_iommu_free_table(container, tbl);
>  	}
>  
> +	while (!list_empty(&container->prereg_list)) {
> +		struct tce_iommu_prereg *tcemem;
> +
> +		tcemem = list_first_entry(&container->prereg_list,
> +				struct tce_iommu_prereg, next);
> +		WARN_ON_ONCE(tce_iommu_prereg_free(container, tcemem));
> +	}
> +
>  	tce_iommu_disable(container);
>  	if (container->mm)
>  		mmdrop(container->mm);

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