On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 03:07:31AM +0200, Liran Alon wrote:
> On 12 Dec 2019, at 21:55, Barret Rhoden <brho(a)google.com> wrote:
>
>>>> Note that KVM already faulted in the page (or huge page) in the
host's
>>>> page table, and we hold the KVM mmu spinlock. We grabbed that lock in
>>>> kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end, before checking the mmu seq.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho(a)google.com>
>>>
>>> I don’t think the right place to change for this functionality is
>>> transparent_hugepage_adjust() which is meant to handle PFNs that are
>>> mapped as part of a transparent huge-page.
>>>
>>> For example, this would prevent mapping DAX-backed file page as 1GB. As
>>> transparent_hugepage_adjust() only handles the case (level ==
>>> PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL).
Teaching thp_adjust() how to handle 1GB wouldn't be a bad thing. It's
unlikely THP itself will support 1GB pages any time soon, but having the
logic there wouldn't hurt anything.
>>> As you are parsing the page-tables to discover the
page-size the PFN is
>>> mapped in, I think you should instead modify kvm_host_page_size() to
>>> parse page-tables instead of rely on vma_kernel_pagesize() (Which relies
>>> on vma->vm_ops->pagesize()) in case of is_zone_device_page().
>>>
>>> The main complication though of doing this is that at this point you
>>> don’t yet have the PFN that is retrieved by try_async_pf(). So maybe you
>>> should consider modifying the order of calls in tdp_page_fault() &
>>> FNAME(page_fault)().
>>>
>>> -Liran
>> Or alternatively when thinking about it more, maybe just rename
>> transparent_hugepage_adjust() to not be specific to THP and better handle
>> the case of parsing page-tables changing mapping-level to 1GB.
>> That is probably easier and more elegant.
Agreed.
> I can rename it to hugepage_adjust(), since it's not just
THP anymore.
Or maybe allowed_hugepage_adjust()? To pair with disallowed_hugepage_adjust(),
which adjusts KVM's page size in the opposite direction to avoid the iTLB
multi-hit issue.
Sounds good.
>
> I was a little hesitant to change the this to handle 1 GB pages with this
> patchset at first. I didn't want to break the non-DAX case stuff by doing
> so.
Why would it affect non-DAX case?
Your patch should just make hugepage_adjust() to parse page-tables only in case
is_zone_device_page(). Otherwise, page tables shouldn’t be parsed.
i.e. THP merged pages should still be detected by PageTransCompoundMap().
I think what Barret is saying is that teaching thp_adjust() how to do 1gb
mappings would naturally affect the code path for THP pages. But I agree
that it would be superficial.
> Specifically, can a THP page be 1 GB, and if so, how can you
tell? If you
> can't tell easily, I could walk the page table for all cases, instead of
> just zone_device().
No, THP doesn't currently support 1gb pages. Expliciting returning
PMD_SIZE on PageTransCompoundMap() would be a good thing from a readability
perspective.
I prefer to walk page-tables only for is_zone_device_page().
>
> I'd also have to drop the "level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL" check, I
think,
> which would open this up to hugetlbfs pages (based on the comments). Is
> there any reason why that would be a bad idea?
No, the "level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL" check is to filter out the case
where KVM is already planning on using a large page, e.g. when the memory
is backed by hugetlbs.
KVM already supports mapping 1GB hugetlbfs pages. As level is set to
PUD-level by
tdp_page_fault()->mapping_level()->host_mapping_level()->kvm_host_page_size()->vma_kernel_pagesize().
As VMA which is mmap of hugetlbfs sets vma->vm_ops to hugetlb_vm_ops() where
hugetlb_vm_op_pagesize() will return appropriate page-size.
Specifically, I don’t think THP ever merges small pages to 1GB pages. I think
this is why transparent_hugepage_adjust() checks PageTransCompoundMap() only
in case level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL. I think you should keep this check in
the case of !is_zone_device_page().
I would add 1gb support for DAX as a third patch in this series. To pave
the way in patch 2/2, change it to replace "bool pfn_is_huge_mapped()" with
"int host_pfn_mapping_level()", and maybe also renaming host_mapping_level()
to host_vma_mapping_level() to avoid confusion.
Then allowed_hugepage_adjust() would look something like:
static void allowed_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn,
kvm_pfn_t *pfnp, int *levelp, int max_level)
{
kvm_pfn_t pfn = *pfnp;
int level = *levelp;
unsigned long mask;
if (is_error_noslot_pfn(pfn) || !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) ||
level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL)
return;
/*
* mmu_notifier_retry() was successful and mmu_lock is held, so
* the pmd/pud can't be split from under us.
*/
level = host_pfn_mapping_level(vcpu->kvm, gfn, pfn);
*levelp = level = min(level, max_level);
mask = KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(level) - 1;
VM_BUG_ON((gfn & mask) != (pfn & mask));
*pfnp = pfn & ~mask;
}