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Sean Christopherson authored
James Harvey reported a livelock that was introduced by commit d012a06a ("Revert "KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only the relevant pages when removing a memslot""). The livelock occurs because kvm_mmu_zap_all() as it exists today will voluntarily reschedule and drop KVM's mmu_lock, which allows other vCPUs to add shadow pages. With enough vCPUs, kvm_mmu_zap_all() can get stuck in an infinite loop as it can never zap all pages before observing lock contention or the need to reschedule. The equivalent of kvm_mmu_zap_all() that was in use at the time of the reverted commit (4e103134, "KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only the relevant pages when removing a memslot") employed a fast invalidate mechanism and was not susceptible to the above livelock. There are three ways to fix the livelock: - Reverting the revert (commit d012a06a) is not a viable option as the revert is needed to fix a regression that occurs when the guest has one or more assigned devices. It's unlikely we'll root cause the device assignment regression soon enough to fix the regression timely. - Remove the conditional reschedule from kvm_mmu_zap_all(). However, although removing the reschedule would be a smaller code change, it's less safe in the sense that the resulting kvm_mmu_zap_all() hasn't been used in the wild for flushing memslots since the fast invalidate mechanism was introduced by commit 6ca18b69 ("KVM: x86: use the fast way to invalidate all pages"), back in 2013. - Reintroduce the fast invalidate mechanism and use it when zapping shadow pages in response to a memslot being deleted/moved, which is what this patch does. For all intents and purposes, this is a revert of commit ea145aac ("Revert "KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all pages"") and a partial revert of commit 7390de1e ("Revert "KVM: x86: use the fast way to invalidate all pages""), i.e. restores the behavior of commit 5304b8d3 ("KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all pages") and commit 6ca18b69 ("KVM: x86: use the fast way to invalidate all pages") respectively. Fixes: d012a06a ("Revert "KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only the relevant pages when removing a memslot"") Reported-by:
James Harvey <jamespharvey20@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Willamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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