Subject: Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH v1] arm64: kvm: flush tlbs by range in unmap_stage2_range function

From: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 18:40:13 +0100

On 2020-07-24 14:43, Zhenyu Ye wrote:
> Now in unmap_stage2_range(), we flush tlbs one by one just after the
> corresponding pages cleared.  However, this may cause some performance
> problems when the unmap range is very large (such as when the vm
> migration rollback, this may cause vm downtime too loog).

You keep resending this patch, but you don't give any numbers
that would back your assertion.

> This patch moves the kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa() out of loop, and
> flush tlbs by range after other operations completed.  Because we
> do not make new mapping for the pages here, so this doesn't violate
> the Break-Before-Make rules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhenyu Ye <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h |  2 ++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/tlb.c         | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c             | 11 +++++++---
>  3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h 
> b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
> index 352aaebf4198..ef8203d3ca45 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
> @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ extern char __kvm_hyp_vector[];
> 
>  extern void __kvm_flush_vm_context(void);
>  extern void __kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t 
> ipa);
> +extern void __kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t 
> start,
> +				       phys_addr_t end);
>  extern void __kvm_tlb_flush_vmid(struct kvm *kvm);
>  extern void __kvm_tlb_flush_local_vmid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/tlb.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/tlb.c
> index d063a576d511..4f4737a7e588 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/tlb.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/tlb.c
> @@ -189,6 +189,42 @@ void __hyp_text __kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(struct
> kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t ipa)
>  	__tlb_switch_to_host(kvm, &cxt);
>  }
> 
> +void __hyp_text __kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range(struct kvm *kvm, 
> phys_addr_t start,
> +					   phys_addr_t end)
> +{
> +	struct tlb_inv_context cxt;
> +	unsigned long addr;
> +
> +	start = __TLBI_VADDR(start, 0);
> +	end = __TLBI_VADDR(end, 0);
> +
> +	dsb(ishst);
> +
> +	/* Switch to requested VMID */
> +	kvm = kern_hyp_va(kvm);
> +	__tlb_switch_to_guest(kvm, &cxt);
> +
> +	if ((end - start) >= 512 << (PAGE_SHIFT - 12)) {
> +		__tlbi(vmalls12e1is);

And what is this magic value based on? You don't even mention in the
commit log that you are taking this shortcut.

> +		goto end;
> +	}
> +
> +	for (addr = start; addr < end; addr += 1 << (PAGE_SHIFT - 12))
> +		__tlbi(ipas2e1is, addr);
> +
> +	dsb(ish);
> +	__tlbi(vmalle1is);
> +
> +end:
> +	dsb(ish);
> +	isb();
> +
> +	if (!has_vhe() && icache_is_vpipt())
> +		__flush_icache_all();
> +
> +	__tlb_switch_to_host(kvm, &cxt);
> +}
> +

I'm sorry, but without numbers backing this approach for a number
of workloads and a representative set of platforms, this is
going nowhere.

Thanks,

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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