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authorOliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>2024-10-07 23:30:25 +0000
committerMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>2024-10-08 10:40:27 +0100
commit6ded46b5a4fd7fc9c6104b770627043aaf996abf (patch)
treed6d7febdea62a3b09d101acd2d10d7011e11039f
parentae8f8b37610269009326f4318df161206c59843e (diff)
KVM: arm64: nv: Keep reference on stage-2 MMU when scheduled out
If a vCPU is scheduling out and not in WFI emulation, it is highly likely it will get scheduled again soon and reuse the MMU it had before. Dropping the MMU at vcpu_put() can have some unfortunate consequences, as the MMU could get reclaimed and used in a different context, forcing another 'cold start' on an otherwise active MMU. Avoid that altogether by keeping a reference on the MMU if the vCPU is scheduling out, ensuring that another vCPU cannot reclaim it while the current vCPU is away. Since there are more MMUs than vCPUs, this does not affect the guarantee that an unused MMU is available at any time. Furthermore, this makes the vcpu->arch.hw_mmu ~stable in preemptible code, at least for where it matters in the stage-2 abort path. Yes, the MMU can change across WFI emulation, but there isn't even a use case where this would matter. Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241007233028.2236133-2-oliver.upton@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c21
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index f9e30dd34c7a..df670c14e1c6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -663,6 +663,13 @@ void kvm_init_nested_s2_mmu(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu)
void kvm_vcpu_load_hw_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
+ /*
+ * The vCPU kept its reference on the MMU after the last put, keep
+ * rolling with it.
+ */
+ if (vcpu->arch.hw_mmu)
+ return;
+
if (is_hyp_ctxt(vcpu)) {
vcpu->arch.hw_mmu = &vcpu->kvm->arch.mmu;
} else {
@@ -674,10 +681,18 @@ void kvm_vcpu_load_hw_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
void kvm_vcpu_put_hw_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- if (kvm_is_nested_s2_mmu(vcpu->kvm, vcpu->arch.hw_mmu)) {
+ /*
+ * Keep a reference on the associated stage-2 MMU if the vCPU is
+ * scheduling out and not in WFI emulation, suggesting it is likely to
+ * reuse the MMU sometime soon.
+ */
+ if (vcpu->scheduled_out && !vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, IN_WFI))
+ return;
+
+ if (kvm_is_nested_s2_mmu(vcpu->kvm, vcpu->arch.hw_mmu))
atomic_dec(&vcpu->arch.hw_mmu->refcnt);
- vcpu->arch.hw_mmu = NULL;
- }
+
+ vcpu->arch.hw_mmu = NULL;
}
/*