From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
zwisler@kernel.org, Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
rkrcmar@redhat.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Zhang, Yu C" <yu.c.zhang@intel.com>,
"Zhang, Yi Z" <yi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 20:10:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4gQztHrJ3--rhU4ZpaZyyqdqE0=gx50CRArHKiXwfYC+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181029202854.7c924fd3@gnomeregan.cam.corp.google.com>
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 5:29 PM Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> wrote:
>
> On 2018-10-29 at 15:25 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> > > + /*
> > > + * Our caller grabbed the KVM mmu_lock with a successful
> > > + * mmu_notifier_retry, so we're safe to walk the page table.
> > > + */
> > > + map_sz = pgd_mapping_size(current->mm, hva);
> > > + switch (map_sz) {
> > > + case PMD_SIZE:
> > > + return true;
> > > + case P4D_SIZE:
> > > + case PUD_SIZE:
> > > + printk_once(KERN_INFO "KVM THP promo found a very large page");
> >
> > Why not allow PUD_SIZE? The device-dax interface supports PUD mappings.
>
> The place where I use that helper seemed to care about PMDs (compared
> to huge pages larger than PUDs), I think due to THP. Though it also
> checks "level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL", so it's probably a moot point.
>
> I can change it from pfn_is_pmd_mapped -> pfn_is_huge_mapped and allow
> any huge mapping that is appropriate: so PUD or PMD for DAX, PMD for
> non-DAX, IIUC.
Yes, THP stops at PMDs, but DAX and hugetlbfs support PUD level mappings.
> > > + return false;
> > > + }
> > > + return false;
> > > +}
> >
> > The above 2 functions are similar to what we need to do for
> > determining the blast radius of a memory error, see
> > dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() and its usage in add_to_kill().
>
> Great. I don't know if I have access in the KVM code to the VMA to use
> those functions directly, but I can extract the guts of
> dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() or something and put it in mm/util.c.
Sounds good.
> > > static void transparent_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > > gfn_t *gfnp, kvm_pfn_t *pfnp,
> > > int *levelp)
> > > @@ -3168,7 +3237,7 @@ static void transparent_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > > */
> > > if (!is_error_noslot_pfn(pfn) && !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) &&
> > > level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL &&
> > > - PageTransCompoundMap(pfn_to_page(pfn)) &&
> > > + pfn_is_pmd_mapped(vcpu->kvm, gfn, pfn) &&
> >
> > I'm wondering if we're adding an explicit is_zone_device_page() check
> > in this path to determine the page mapping size if that can be a
> > replacement for the kvm_is_reserved_pfn() check. In other words, the
> > goal of fixing up PageReserved() was to preclude the need for DAX-page
> > special casing in KVM, but if we already need add some special casing
> > for page size determination, might as well bypass the
> > kvm_is_reserved_pfn() dependency as well.
>
> kvm_is_reserved_pfn() is used in some other places, like
> kvm_set_pfn_dirty()and kvm_set_pfn_accessed(). Maybe the way those
> treat DAX pages matters on a case-by-case basis?
>
> There are other callers of kvm_is_reserved_pfn() such as
> kvm_pfn_to_page() and gfn_to_page(). I'm not familiar (yet) with how
> struct pages and DAX work together, and whether or not the callers of
> those pfn_to_page() functions have expectations about the 'type' of
> struct page they get back.
>
The property of DAX pages that requires special coordination is the
fact that the device hosting the pages can be disabled at will. The
get_dev_pagemap() api is the interface to pin a device-pfn so that you
can safely perform a pfn_to_page() operation.
Have the pages that kvm uses in this path already been pinned by vfio?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-30 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-29 21:07 [RFC PATCH] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Barret Rhoden
2018-10-29 22:25 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-30 0:28 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-10-30 3:10 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2018-10-30 19:45 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-10-31 8:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-02 20:32 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-11-06 10:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-06 16:22 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-10-31 3:05 ` Yu Zhang
2018-10-31 8:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-10-31 21:16 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-06 10:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-06 21:05 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-11-06 21:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-06 21:17 ` Barret Rhoden
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAPcyv4gQztHrJ3--rhU4ZpaZyyqdqE0=gx50CRArHKiXwfYC+A@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=dan.j.williams@intel.com \
--cc=bp@alien8.de \
--cc=brho@google.com \
--cc=dave.jiang@intel.com \
--cc=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org \
--cc=mingo@redhat.com \
--cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
--cc=rkrcmar@redhat.com \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
--cc=vishal.l.verma@intel.com \
--cc=x86@kernel.org \
--cc=yi.z.zhang@intel.com \
--cc=yu.c.zhang@intel.com \
--cc=zwisler@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).