kvm: defer huge page recovery vhost task to later

Some libraries want to ensure they are single threaded before forking,
so making the kernel's kvm huge page recovery process a vhost task of
the user process breaks those. The minijail library used by crosvm is
one such affected application.

Defer the task to after the first VM_RUN call, which occurs after the
parent process has forked all its jailed processes. This needs to happen
only once for the kvm instance, so introduce some general-purpose
infrastructure for that, too.  It's similar in concept to pthread_once;
except it is actually usable, because the callback takes a parameter.

Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20250123153543.2769928-1-kbusch@meta.com>
[Move call_once API to include/linux. - Paolo]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d96c77bd4eeb ("KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 26b4ba7e7cb5..a45ae60e84ab 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -7447,20 +7447,28 @@ static bool kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker(void *data)
 	return true;
 }
 
-int kvm_mmu_post_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
+static void kvm_mmu_start_lpage_recovery(struct once *once)
 {
-	if (nx_hugepage_mitigation_hard_disabled)
-		return 0;
+	struct kvm_arch *ka = container_of(once, struct kvm_arch, nx_once);
+	struct kvm *kvm = container_of(ka, struct kvm, arch);
 
 	kvm->arch.nx_huge_page_last = get_jiffies_64();
 	kvm->arch.nx_huge_page_recovery_thread = vhost_task_create(
 		kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker, kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker_kill,
 		kvm, "kvm-nx-lpage-recovery");
 
+	if (kvm->arch.nx_huge_page_recovery_thread)
+		vhost_task_start(kvm->arch.nx_huge_page_recovery_thread);
+}
+
+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;
-
-	vhost_task_start(kvm->arch.nx_huge_page_recovery_thread);
 	return 0;
 }