Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 16/18] KVM: Don't take mmu_lock for range invalidation unless necessary | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:47:42 +0200 |
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On 31/03/21 18:41, Sean Christopherson wrote: >> That said, the easiest way to avoid this would be to always update >> mmu_notifier_count. > Updating mmu_notifier_count requires taking mmu_lock, which would defeat the > purpose of these shenanigans.
Okay; I wasn't sure if the problem was contention with page faults in general, or just the long critical sections from the MMU notifier callbacks. Still updating mmu_notifier_count unconditionally is a good way to break up the patch in two and keep one commit just for the rwsem nastiness.
>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) && defined(KVM_ARCH_WANT_MMU_NOTIFIER) >>> + down_write(&kvm->mmu_notifier_slots_lock); >>> +#endif >>> rcu_assign_pointer(kvm->memslots[as_id], slots); >>> +#if defined(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) && defined(KVM_ARCH_WANT_MMU_NOTIFIER) >>> + up_write(&kvm->mmu_notifier_slots_lock); >>> +#endif >> Please do this unconditionally, the cost is minimal if the rwsem is not >> contended (as is the case if the architecture doesn't use MMU notifiers at >> all). > It's not the cost, it's that mmu_notifier_slots_lock doesn't exist. That's an > easily solved problem, but then the lock wouldn't be initialized since > kvm_init_mmu_notifier() is a nop. That's again easy to solve, but IMO would > look rather weird. I guess the counter argument is that __kvm_memslots() > wouldn't need #ifdeffery.
Yep. Less #ifdefs usually wins. :)
> These are the to ideas I've come up with: > > Option 1: > static int kvm_init_mmu_notifier(struct kvm *kvm) > { > init_rwsem(&kvm->mmu_notifier_slots_lock); > > #if defined(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) && defined(KVM_ARCH_WANT_MMU_NOTIFIER) > kvm->mmu_notifier.ops = &kvm_mmu_notifier_ops; > return mmu_notifier_register(&kvm->mmu_notifier, current->mm); > #else > return 0; > #endif > }
Option 2 is also okay I guess, but the simplest is option 1 + just init it in kvm_create_vm.
Paolo
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