Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] KVM: x86: Participate in bitmap-based PTE aging

David Matlack
2024-04-11T17:08:50Z

On 2024-04-01 11:29 PM, James Houghton wrote:
> Only handle the TDP MMU case for now. In other cases, if a bitmap was
> not provided, fallback to the slowpath that takes mmu_lock, or, if a
> bitmap was provided, inform the caller that the bitmap is unreliable.
>
> Suggested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 10 +++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 3b58e2306621..c30918d0887e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -2324,4 +2324,18 @@ int memslot_rmap_alloc(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, unsigned long npages);
> */
> #define KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL_MBZ GENMASK_ULL(31, 1)
>
> +#define kvm_arch_prepare_bitmap_age kvm_arch_prepare_bitmap_age
> +static inline bool kvm_arch_prepare_bitmap_age(struct mmu_notifier *mn)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Indicate that we support bitmap-based aging when using the TDP MMU
> + * and the accessed bit is available in the TDP page tables.
> + *
> + * We have no other preparatory work to do here, so we do not need to
> + * redefine kvm_arch_finish_bitmap_age().
> + */
> + return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64) && tdp_mmu_enabled
> + && shadow_accessed_mask;
> +}
> +
> #endif /* _ASM_X86_KVM_HOST_H */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index 992e651540e8..fae1a75750bb 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -1674,8 +1674,14 @@ bool kvm_age_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range)
> {
> bool young = false;
>
> - if (kvm_memslots_have_rmaps(kvm))
> + if (kvm_memslots_have_rmaps(kvm)) {
> + if (range->lockless) {
> + kvm_age_set_unreliable(range);
> + return false;
> + }

If a VM has TDP MMU enabled, supports A/D bits, and is using nested
virtualization, MGLRU will effectively be blind to all accesses made by
the VM.

kvm_arch_prepare_bitmap_age() will return true indicating that the
bitmap is supported. But then kvm_age_gfn() and kvm_test_age_gfn() will
return false immediately and indicate the bitmap is unreliable because a
shadow root is allocate. The notfier will then return
MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_BITMAP_UNRELIABLE.

Looking at the callers, MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_BITMAP_UNRELIABLE is never
consumed or used. So I think MGLRU will assume all memory is
unaccessed?

One way to improve the situation would be to re-order the TDP MMU
function first and return young instead of false, so that way MGLRU at
least has visibility into accesses made by L1 (and L2 if EPT is disable
in L2). But that still means MGLRU is blind to accesses made by L2.

What about grabbing the mmu_lock if there's a shadow root allocated and
get rid of MMU_NOTIFIER_YOUNG_BITMAP_UNRELIABLE altogether?

if (kvm_memslots_have_rmaps(kvm)) {
write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
young |= kvm_handle_gfn_range(kvm, range, kvm_age_rmap);
write_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
}

The TDP MMU walk would still be lockless. KVM only has to take the
mmu_lock to collect accesses made by L2.

kvm_age_rmap() and kvm_test_age_rmap() will need to become bitmap-aware
as well, but that seems relatively simple with the helper functions.