From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] x86/mm/tlb: Flush remote and local TLBs concurrently
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 17:49:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AA36DE0F-04DB-47E1-B5D8-2E4522E9D6B3@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190527094710.GU2623@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
> On May 27, 2019, at 2:47 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 10:54:50AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 25/05/2019 10:22, Nadav Amit wrote:
>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
>>> index 946f8f1f1efc..3a156e63c57d 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
>>> @@ -211,6 +211,12 @@ struct pv_mmu_ops {
>>> void (*flush_tlb_user)(void);
>>> void (*flush_tlb_kernel)(void);
>>> void (*flush_tlb_one_user)(unsigned long addr);
>>> + /*
>>> + * flush_tlb_multi() is the preferred interface. When it is used,
>>> + * flush_tlb_others() should return false.
>>
>> This comment does not make sense. flush_tlb_others() return type is
>> void.
>
> I suspect that is an artifact from before the static_key; an attempt to
> make the pv interface less awkward.
Yes, remainders that should have been removed - I will remove them for the
next version.
> Something like the below would work for KVM I suspect, the others
> (Hyper-V and Xen are more 'interesting').
>
> ---
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ static void __init kvm_apf_trap_init(voi
>
> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, __pv_tlb_mask);
>
> -static void kvm_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
> +static void kvm_flush_tlb_multi(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
> const struct flush_tlb_info *info)
> {
> u8 state;
> @@ -594,6 +594,9 @@ static void kvm_flush_tlb_others(const s
> * queue flush_on_enter for pre-empted vCPUs
> */
> for_each_cpu(cpu, flushmask) {
> + if (cpu == smp_processor_id())
> + continue;
> +
> src = &per_cpu(steal_time, cpu);
> state = READ_ONCE(src->preempted);
> if ((state & KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED)) {
> @@ -603,7 +606,7 @@ static void kvm_flush_tlb_others(const s
> }
> }
>
> - native_flush_tlb_others(flushmask, info);
> + native_flush_tlb_multi(flushmask, info);
> }
>
> static void __init kvm_guest_init(void)
> @@ -628,9 +631,8 @@ static void __init kvm_guest_init(void)
> if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_TLB_FLUSH) &&
> !kvm_para_has_hint(KVM_HINTS_REALTIME) &&
> kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_STEAL_TIME)) {
> - pv_ops.mmu.flush_tlb_others = kvm_flush_tlb_others;
> + pv_ops.mmu.flush_tlb_multi = kvm_flush_tlb_multi;
> pv_ops.mmu.tlb_remove_table = tlb_remove_table;
> - static_key_disable(&flush_tlb_multi_enabled.key);
> }
>
> if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI))
That’s what I have as well ;-).
As you mentioned (in another email), specifically hyper-v code seems
convoluted to me. In general, I prefer not to touch KVM/Xen/hyper-v, but you
twist my arm, I will send a compile-tested version for Xen and hyper-v.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-27 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20190525082203.6531-1-namit@vmware.com>
2019-05-25 8:22 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] x86/mm/tlb: Flush remote and local TLBs concurrently Nadav Amit
2019-05-25 8:38 ` Nadav Amit
2019-05-25 8:54 ` Juergen Gross
2019-05-27 9:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-27 10:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-27 12:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-27 12:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-27 17:49 ` Nadav Amit [this message]
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