Re: [PATCH 01/13] mm: Update ptep_get_lockless()s comment

Peter Zijlstra
2022-10-25T15:06:41Z

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 04:18:20PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 4:02 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 09:58:07PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> >
> > > Unless I'm completely misunderstanding what's going on here, the whole
> > > "remove_table" thing only happens when you "remove a table", meaning
> > > you free an entire *pagetable*. Just zapping PTEs doesn't trigger that
> > > logic.
> >
> > Aah; yes true. OTOH even it that were not so, I think it would still be
> > broken because the current code relies on the TLB flush to have
> > completed, whereas the RCU scheme is effectively async and can be
> > considered pending until the callback runs.
> >
> > Hurmph... easiest fix is probably to dis-allow kvm_flush_tlb_multi()
> > for i386-pae builds.
> >
> > Something like so... nobody in his right mind should care about i386-pae
> > virt performance much.
>
> I think Xen and HyperV have similar codepaths.
> hyperv_flush_tlb_multi() looks like it uses remote flush hypercalls,
> xen_flush_tlb_multi() too.

Sure (not updated).

> On top of that, I think that theoretically, Linux doesn't even ensure
> that you have a TLB flush in between tearing down one PTE and
> installing another PTE (see
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAG48ez1Oz4tT-N2Y=Zs6jumu=zOp7SQRZ=V2c+b5bT9P4retJA@mail.gmail.com/),
> but I haven't tested that, and if it is true, I'm also not entirely
> sure if it's correct (in the sense that it only creates incoherent-TLB
> states when userspace is doing something stupid like racing
> MADV_DONTNEED and page faults on the same region).
>
> I think the more clearly correct fix would be to get rid of the split
> loads and use CMPXCHG16B instead (probably destroying the performance
> of GUP-fast completely), but that's complicated because some of the
> architectures that use the split loads path don't have cmpxchg_double
> (or at least don't have it wired up).

cmpxchg8b; but no, I think we want to fix MADV_DONTNEED, incoherent TLB
states are a pain nobody needs.

Something like so should force TLB flushes before dropping pte_lock (not
looked at the various pmd level things yet).

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index 95fb85bea111..cbfb84e88251 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -473,6 +473,12 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, __pv_cpu_mask);

static bool pv_tlb_flush_supported(void)
{
+ /*
+ * i386-PAE split loads are incompatible with optimized TLB flushes.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH))
+ return false;
+
return (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH) &&
!kvm_para_has_hint(KVM_HINTS_REALTIME) &&
kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME) &&
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 8bbcccbc5565..397bc04e2d82 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3474,5 +3474,6 @@ madvise_set_anon_name(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
* default, the flag is not set.
*/
#define ZAP_FLAG_DROP_MARKER ((__force zap_flags_t) BIT(0))
+#define ZAP_FLAG_FORCE_FLUSH ((__force zap_flags_t) BIT(1))

#endif /* _LINUX_MM_H */
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f88c351aecd4..9bb63b3fbee1 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1440,6 +1440,11 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, pte, addr);
zap_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(vma, addr, pte, details,
ptent);
+
+ if (!force_flush && !tlb->fullmm && details &&
+ details->zap_flags & ZAP_FLAG_FORCE_FLUSH)
+ force_flush = 1;
+
if (unlikely(!page))
continue;

@@ -1749,6 +1754,9 @@ void zap_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
struct maple_tree *mt = &vma->vm_mm->mm_mt;
unsigned long end = start + size;
struct mmu_notifier_range range;
+ struct zap_details details = {
+ .zap_flags = ZAP_FLAG_FORCE_FLUSH,
+ };
struct mmu_gather tlb;
MA_STATE(mas, mt, vma->vm_end, vma->vm_end);

@@ -1759,7 +1767,7 @@ void zap_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
update_hiwater_rss(vma->vm_mm);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
do {
- unmap_single_vma(&tlb, vma, start, range.end, NULL);
+ unmap_single_vma(&tlb, vma, start, range.end, &details);
} while ((vma = mas_find(&mas, end - 1)) != NULL);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb);
@@ -1806,7 +1814,7 @@ void zap_vma_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
unsigned long size)
{
if (!range_in_vma(vma, address, address + size) ||
- !(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP))
+ !(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP))
return;

zap_page_range_single(vma, address, size, NULL);