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Allow yielding when zapping SPTEs after the last reference to a valid root is put. Because KVM must drop all SPTEs in response to relevant mmu_notifier events, mark defunct roots invalid and reset their refcount prior to zapping the root. Keeping the refcount elevated while the zap is in-progress ensures the root is reachable via mmu_notifier until the zap completes and the last reference to the invalid, defunct root is put. Allowing kvm_tdp_mmu_put_root() to yield fixes soft lockup issues if the root in being put has a massive paging structure, e.g. zapping a root that is backed entirely by 4kb pages for a guest with 32tb of memory can take hundreds of seconds to complete. watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#49 stuck for 485s! [max_guest_memor:52368] RIP: 0010:kvm_set_pfn_dirty+0x30/0x50 [kvm] __handle_changed_spte+0x1b2/0x2f0 [kvm] handle_removed_tdp_mmu_page+0x1a7/0x2b8 [kvm] __handle_changed_spte+0x1f4/0x2f0 [kvm] handle_removed_tdp_mmu_page+0x1a7/0x2b8 [kvm] __handle_changed_spte+0x1f4/0x2f0 [kvm] tdp_mmu_zap_root+0x307/0x4d0 [kvm] kvm_tdp_mmu_put_root+0x7c/0xc0 [kvm] kvm_mmu_free_roots+0x22d/0x350 [kvm] kvm_mmu_reset_context+0x20/0x60 [kvm] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs+0x5a/0xc0 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5bd/0x710 [kvm] __se_sys_ioctl+0x77/0xc0 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1d/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x44/0xa0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae KVM currently doesn't put a root from a non-preemptible context, so other than the mmu_notifier wrinkle, yielding when putting a root is safe. Yield-unfriendly iteration uses for_each_tdp_mmu_root(), which doesn't take a reference to each root (it requires mmu_lock be held for the entire duration of the walk). tdp_mmu_next_root() is used only by the yield-friendly iterator. tdp_mmu_zap_root_work() is explicitly yield friendly. kvm_mmu_free_roots() => mmu_free_root_page() is a much bigger fan-out, but is still yield-friendly in all call sites, as all callers can be traced back to some combination of vcpu_run(), kvm_destroy_vm(), and/or kvm_create_vm(). Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20220226001546.360188-21-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.