On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:34 AM Liran Alon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 11 Dec 2019, at 23:32, Barret Rhoden <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This change allows KVM to map DAX-backed files made of huge pages with
> > huge mappings in the EPT/TDP.
> >
> > DAX pages are not PageTransCompound.  The existing check is trying to
> > determine if the mapping for the pfn is a huge mapping or not.  For
> > non-DAX maps, e.g. hugetlbfs, that means checking PageTransCompound.
> > For DAX, we can check the page table itself.
>
> For hugetlbfs pages, tdp_page_fault() -> mapping_level() -> 
> host_mapping_level() -> kvm_host_page_size() -> vma_kernel_pagesize()
> will return the page-size of the hugetlbfs without the need to parse the 
> page-tables.
> See vma->vm_ops->pagesize() callback implementation at 
> hugetlb_vm_ops->pagesize()==hugetlb_vm_op_pagesize().
>
> Only for pages that were originally mapped as small-pages and later merged to 
> larger pages by THP, there is a need to check for PageTransCompound(). Again, 
> instead of parsing page-tables.
>
> Therefore, it seems more logical to me that:
> (a) If DAX-backed files are mapped as large-pages to userspace, it should be 
> reflected in vma->vm_ops->page_size() of that mapping. Causing 
> kvm_host_page_size() to return the right size without the need to parse the 
> page-tables.

A given dax-mapped vma may have mixed page sizes so ->page_size()
can't be used reliably to enumerating the mapping size.

> (b) If DAX-backed files small-pages can be later merged to large-pages by 
> THP, then the “struct page” of these pages should be modified as usual to 
> make PageTransCompound() return true for them. I’m not highly familiar with 
> this mechanism, but I would expect THP to be able to merge DAX-backed files 
> small-pages to large-pages in case DAX provides “struct page” for the DAX 
> pages.

DAX pages do not participate in THP and do not have the
PageTransCompound accounting. The only mechanism that records the
mapping size for dax is the page tables themselves.


>
> >
> > 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 <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > index 6f92b40d798c..cd07bc4e595f 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > @@ -3384,6 +3384,35 @@ static int kvm_handle_bad_page(struct kvm_vcpu 
> > *vcpu, gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t pfn)
> >       return -EFAULT;
> > }
> >
> > +static bool pfn_is_huge_mapped(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t pfn)
> > +{
> > +     struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> > +     unsigned long hva;
> > +
> > +     if (!is_zone_device_page(page))
> > +             return PageTransCompoundMap(page);
> > +
> > +     /*
> > +      * DAX pages do not use compound pages.  The page should have already
> > +      * been mapped into the host-side page table during try_async_pf(), so
> > +      * we can check the page tables directly.
> > +      */
> > +     hva = gfn_to_hva(kvm, gfn);
> > +     if (kvm_is_error_hva(hva))
> > +             return false;
> > +
> > +     /*
> > +      * Our caller grabbed the KVM mmu_lock with a successful
> > +      * mmu_notifier_retry, so we're safe to walk the page table.
> > +      */
> > +     switch (dev_pagemap_mapping_shift(hva, current->mm)) {
>
> Doesn’t dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() get “struct page” as first parameter?
> Was this changed by a commit I missed?
>
> -Liran
>
> > +     case PMD_SHIFT:
> > +     case PUD_SIZE:
> > +             return true;
> > +     }
> > +     return false;
> > +}
> > +
> > static void transparent_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >                                       gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t *pfnp,
> >                                       int *levelp)
> > @@ -3398,8 +3427,8 @@ static void transparent_hugepage_adjust(struct 
> > kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >        * here.
> >        */
> >       if (!is_error_noslot_pfn(pfn) && !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) &&
> > -         !kvm_is_zone_device_pfn(pfn) && level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL &&
> > -         PageTransCompoundMap(pfn_to_page(pfn)) &&
> > +         level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL &&
> > +         pfn_is_huge_mapped(vcpu->kvm, gfn, pfn) &&
> >           !mmu_gfn_lpage_is_disallowed(vcpu, gfn, PT_DIRECTORY_LEVEL)) {
> >               unsigned long mask;
> >               /*
> > @@ -6015,8 +6044,7 @@ static bool kvm_mmu_zap_collapsible_spte(struct kvm 
> > *kvm,
> >                * mapping if the indirect sp has level = 1.
> >                */
> >               if (sp->role.direct && !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) &&
> > -                 !kvm_is_zone_device_pfn(pfn) &&
> > -                 PageTransCompoundMap(pfn_to_page(pfn))) {
> > +                 pfn_is_huge_mapped(kvm, sp->gfn, pfn)) {
> >                       pte_list_remove(rmap_head, sptep);
> >
> >                       if (kvm_available_flush_tlb_with_range())
> > --
> > 2.24.0.525.g8f36a354ae-goog
> >
>
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