lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2020]   [Jun]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: async_pf: Inject 'page ready' event only if 'page not present' was previously injected
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 03:32:11PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 07:55:32PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > 'Page not present' event may or may not get injected depending on
> > guest's state. If the event wasn't injected, there is no need to
> > inject the corresponding 'page ready' event as the guest may get
> > confused. E.g. Linux thinks that the corresponding 'page not present'
> > event wasn't delivered *yet* and allocates a 'dummy entry' for it.
> > This entry is never freed.
> >
> > Note, 'wakeup all' events have no corresponding 'page not present'
> > event and always get injected.
> >
> > s390 seems to always be able to inject 'page not present', the
> > change is effectively a nop.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
> > arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 4 +++-
> > arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
> > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 +++++--
> > include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 +
> > virt/kvm/async_pf.c | 2 +-
> > 6 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > index 3d554887794e..cee3cb6455a2 100644
> > --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > @@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ bool kvm_arch_can_dequeue_async_page_present(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> > void kvm_arch_async_page_ready(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > struct kvm_async_pf *work);
> >
> > -void kvm_arch_async_page_not_present(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > +bool kvm_arch_async_page_not_present(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > struct kvm_async_pf *work);
>
> Hi Vitaly,
>
> A minor nit. Using return code to figure out if exception was injected
> or not is little odd. How about we pass a pointer instead as parameter
> and kvm_arch_async_page_not_present() sets it to true if page not
> present exception was injected. This probably will be easier to
> read.
>
> If for some reason you don't like above, atleats it warrants a comment
> explaining what do 0 and 1 mean.
>
> Otherwise both the patches look good to me. I tested and I can confirm
> that now page ready events are not being delivered to guest if page
> not present was not injected.

Why does kvm_arch_async_page_not_present() need to "return" anything? It
has access to @work, e.g. simply replace "return true" with
"work->notpresent_injected = true".

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2020-06-10 21:49    [W:0.574 / U:0.408 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site