Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 8 authors, 2025-07-08

[PATCHv3 2/2] kvm: retry nx_huge_page_recovery_thread creation

From: Keith Busch <hidden>
Date: 2025-02-27 23:06:39
Also in: kvm, virtualization
Subsystem: kernel virtual machine for x86 (kvm/x86), the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Sean Christopherson, Paolo Bonzini, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

A VMM may send a signal to its threads while they've entered KVM_RUN. If
that thread happens to be trying to make the huge page recovery vhost
task, then it fails with -ERESTARTNOINTR. We need to retry if that
happens, so call_once needs to be retryable. Make call_once complete
only if what it called was successful.

[implemented the kvm user side]
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c    | 10 ++++------
 include/linux/call_once.h | 16 +++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 18ca1ea6dc240..8160870398b90 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -7460,7 +7460,7 @@ static bool kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker(void *data)
 	return true;
 }
 
-static void kvm_mmu_start_lpage_recovery(struct once *once)
+static int kvm_mmu_start_lpage_recovery(struct once *once)
 {
 	struct kvm_arch *ka = container_of(once, struct kvm_arch, nx_once);
 	struct kvm *kvm = container_of(ka, struct kvm, arch);
@@ -7472,12 +7472,13 @@ static void kvm_mmu_start_lpage_recovery(struct once *once)
 				      kvm, "kvm-nx-lpage-recovery");
 
 	if (IS_ERR(nx_thread))
-		return;
+		return PTR_ERR(nx_thread);
 
 	vhost_task_start(nx_thread);
 
 	/* Make the task visible only once it is fully started. */
 	WRITE_ONCE(kvm->arch.nx_huge_page_recovery_thread, nx_thread);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 int kvm_mmu_post_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
@@ -7485,10 +7486,7 @@ int kvm_mmu_post_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
 	if (nx_hugepage_mitigation_hard_disabled)
 		return 0;
 
-	call_once(&kvm->arch.nx_once, kvm_mmu_start_lpage_recovery);
-	if (!kvm->arch.nx_huge_page_recovery_thread)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	return 0;
+	return call_once(&kvm->arch.nx_once, kvm_mmu_start_lpage_recovery);
 }
 
 void kvm_mmu_pre_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
diff --git a/include/linux/call_once.h b/include/linux/call_once.h
index 6261aa0b3fb00..ddcfd91493eaa 100644
--- a/include/linux/call_once.h
+++ b/include/linux/call_once.h
@@ -26,20 +26,26 @@ do {									\
 	__once_init((once), #once, &__key);				\
 } while (0)
 
-static inline void call_once(struct once *once, void (*cb)(struct once *))
+static inline int call_once(struct once *once, int (*cb)(struct once *))
 {
+	int r;
+
         /* Pairs with atomic_set_release() below.  */
         if (atomic_read_acquire(&once->state) == ONCE_COMPLETED)
-                return;
+		return 0;
 
         guard(mutex)(&once->lock);
         WARN_ON(atomic_read(&once->state) == ONCE_RUNNING);
         if (atomic_read(&once->state) != ONCE_NOT_STARTED)
-                return;
+                return -EINVAL;
 
         atomic_set(&once->state, ONCE_RUNNING);
-        cb(once);
-        atomic_set_release(&once->state, ONCE_COMPLETED);
+	r = cb(once);
+	if (r)
+		atomic_set(&once->state, ONCE_NOT_STARTED);
+	else
+		atomic_set_release(&once->state, ONCE_COMPLETED);
+	return r;
 }
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_CALL_ONCE_H */
-- 
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