Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files

Liran Alon
2019-12-12T17:45:38Z

> On 12 Dec 2019, at 19:34, Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 04:32:07PM -0500, Barret Rhoden wrote:
>> This change allows KVM to map DAX-backed files made of huge pages with
>> huge mappings in the EPT/TDP.
>>
>> DAX pages are not PageTransCompound. The existing check is trying to
>> determine if the mapping for the pfn is a huge mapping or not. For
>> non-DAX maps, e.g. hugetlbfs, that means checking PageTransCompound.
>> For DAX, we can check the page table itself.
>>
>> Note that KVM already faulted in the page (or huge page) in the host's
>> page table, and we hold the KVM mmu spinlock. We grabbed that lock in
>> kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end, before checking the mmu seq.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
>> index 6f92b40d798c..cd07bc4e595f 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
>> @@ -3384,6 +3384,35 @@ static int kvm_handle_bad_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t pfn)
>> return -EFAULT;
>> }
>>
>> +static bool pfn_is_huge_mapped(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t pfn)
>> +{
>> + struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>> + unsigned long hva;
>> +
>> + if (!is_zone_device_page(page))
>> + return PageTransCompoundMap(page);
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * DAX pages do not use compound pages. The page should have already
>> + * been mapped into the host-side page table during try_async_pf(), so
>> + * we can check the page tables directly.
>> + */
>> + hva = gfn_to_hva(kvm, gfn);
>> + if (kvm_is_error_hva(hva))
>> + return false;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * Our caller grabbed the KVM mmu_lock with a successful
>> + * mmu_notifier_retry, so we're safe to walk the page table.
>> + */
>> + switch (dev_pagemap_mapping_shift(hva, current->mm)) {
>> + case PMD_SHIFT:
>> + case PUD_SIZE:
>
> I assume this means DAX can have 1GB pages? I ask because KVM's THP logic
> has historically relied on THP only supporting 2MB. I cleaned this up in
> a recent series[*], which is in kvm/queue, but I obviously didn't actually
> test whether or not KVM would correctly handle 1GB non-hugetlbfs pages.

KVM doesn’t handle 1GB correctly for all types of non-hugetlbfs pages.
One example we have noticed internally but haven’t submitted an upstream patch yet is
for pages without “struct page”. As in this case, hva_to_pfn() will notice vma->vm_flags have VM_PFNMAP set
and call hva_to_pfn_remapped() -> follow_pfn().
However, follow_pfn() currently just calls follow_pte() which use __follow_pte_pmd() that doesn’t handle a huge PUD entry.

>
> The easiest thing is probably to rebase on kvm/queue. You'll need to do
> that anyways, and I suspect doing so will help shake out any hiccups.
>
> [*] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lkml.kernel.org_r_20191206235729.29263-2D1-2Dsean.j.christopherson-40intel.com&d=DwIBAg&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=Jk6Q8nNzkQ6LJ6g42qARkg6ryIDGQr-yKXPNGZbpTx0&m=Lk-PXE125WU3GWJOV4U4crsSEFx7f5AUmRJhkrfIeAE&s=BIo4tnL4OfswRQ2QKfTs9VYScLU5lBy2pwzePBnHow8&e=
>
>> + return true;
>> + }
>> + return false;
>> +}
>> +
>> static void transparent_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>> gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t *pfnp,
>> int *levelp)
>> @@ -3398,8 +3427,8 @@ static void transparent_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>> * here.
>> */
>> if (!is_error_noslot_pfn(pfn) && !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) &&
>> - !kvm_is_zone_device_pfn(pfn) && level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL &&
>> - PageTransCompoundMap(pfn_to_page(pfn)) &&
>> + level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL &&
>> + pfn_is_huge_mapped(vcpu->kvm, gfn, pfn) &&
>> !mmu_gfn_lpage_is_disallowed(vcpu, gfn, PT_DIRECTORY_LEVEL)) {
>> unsigned long mask;
>> /*
>> @@ -6015,8 +6044,7 @@ static bool kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_spte(struct kvm *kvm,
>> * mapping if the indirect sp has level = 1.
>> */
>> if (sp->role.direct && !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) &&
>> - !kvm_is_zone_device_pfn(pfn) &&
>> - PageTransCompoundMap(pfn_to_page(pfn))) {
>> + pfn_is_huge_mapped(kvm, sp->gfn, pfn)) {
>> pte_list_remove(rmap_head, sptep);
>>
>> if (kvm_available_flush_tlb_with_range())
>> --
>> 2.24.0.525.g8f36a354ae-goog
>>