Re: [PATCH v3 22/33] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle page fault for a nested guest

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David Gibson <hidden>
Date
2018-10-03 06:38:50
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David Gibson, 2018-10-03
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 03:39:13PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 09:31:21PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
quoted
From: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>

Consider a normal (L1) guest running under the main hypervisor (L0),
and then a nested guest (L2) running under the L1 guest which is acting
as a nested hypervisor. L0 has page tables to map the address space for
L1 providing the translation from L1 real address -> L0 real address;

	L1
	|
	| (L1 -> L0)
	|
	----> L0

There are also page tables in L1 used to map the address space for L2
providing the translation from L2 real address -> L1 read address. Since
the hardware can only walk a single level of page table, we need to
maintain in L0 a "shadow_pgtable" for L2 which provides the translation
from L2 real address -> L0 real address. Which looks like;

	L2				L2
	|				|
	| (L2 -> L1)			|
	|				|
	----> L1			| (L2 -> L0)
	      |				|
	      | (L1 -> L0)		|
	      |				|
	      ----> L0			--------> L0

When a page fault occurs while running a nested (L2) guest we need to
insert a pte into this "shadow_pgtable" for the L2 -> L0 mapping. To
do this we need to:

1. Walk the pgtable in L1 memory to find the L2 -> L1 mapping, and
   provide a page fault to L1 if this mapping doesn't exist.
2. Use our L1 -> L0 pgtable to convert this L1 address to an L0 address,
   or try to insert a pte for that mapping if it doesn't exist.
3. Now we have a L2 -> L0 mapping, insert this into our shadow_pgtable

Once this mapping exists we can take rc faults when hardware is unable
to automatically set the reference and change bits in the pte. On these
we need to:

1. Check the rc bits on the L2 -> L1 pte match, and otherwise reflect
   the fault down to L1.
2. Set the rc bits in the L1 -> L0 pte which corresponds to the same
   host page.
3. Set the rc bits in the L2 -> L0 pte.

As we reuse a large number of functions in book3s_64_mmu_radix.c for
this we also needed to refactor a number of these functions to take
an lpid parameter so that the correct lpid is used for tlb invalidations.
The functionality however has remained the same.

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Some comments below, but no showstoppers, so,

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <redacted>
One more, again not a showstopper:
quoted
@@ -393,10 +396,20 @@ struct kvm_nested_guest *kvmhv_alloc_nested(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int lpid)
  */
 static void kvmhv_release_nested(struct kvm_nested_guest *gp)
 {
+	struct kvm *kvm = gp->l1_host;
+
+	if (gp->shadow_pgtable) {
+		/*
+		 * No vcpu is using this struct and no call to
+		 * kvmhv_remove_nest_rmap can find this struct,
It's kind of dubious that you're referring to kvmhv_remove_nest_rmap()
a patch before it is introduced.

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