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| author | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2026-08-26 09:42:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2026-09-11 11:48:12 -0700 |
| commit | 355323a4dc945d0176f54c324aa44943820f932f (patch) | |
| tree | 1fdb3d01f01b9813053514ff5c3a13e4c405e26c /tools/perf/scripts/python/stackcollapse.py | |
| parent | b59a87c1ba3c347e8aec5f932eb7abf13064fd62 (diff) | |
KVM: x86/mmu: Reload MMU on *every* page pre-fault attempt/iteration
Reload the MMU (which is a nop if the MMU doesn't need to be reloaded) on
every attempt to pre-fault a guest page, i.e. when the page fault path
signals that the caller should retry. If the synchronize_srcu_expedited()
in kvm_invalidate_memslot() completes before kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory()
grabs SRCU, but kvm_mmu_reload() in the pre-fault path completes before
kvm_invalidate_memslot() triggers x86's "fast zap all", then the pre-fault
task will reach kvm_tdp_page_prefault() with an invalid root.
Attempting to fault-in memory with an invalid root ultimately puts
kvm_tdp_page_prefault() into an infinite (breakable) retry loop, which
manifests most obviously as a hang in the pre_fault_memory_test selftest,
but also eventually causes RCU (SRCU?) to complain.
INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
000000000cda47bd: .. nvcsw: 6/6 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/25
task:pre_fault_memor state:R running task stack:12696
pid:95588 tgid:95588 ppid:95584 task_flags:0x400000 flags:0x00080801
Call Trace:
<TASK>
lock_release+0x4e/0x320
__get_user_pages+0x546/0xcd0
up_read+0x1b/0x30
get_user_pages_unlocked+0xee/0x350
hva_to_pfn+0xd3/0x3d0 [kvm]
lock_release+0x4e/0x320
xa_load+0x5c/0x170
xa_load+0x14c/0x170
__kvm_faultin_pfn+0xd9/0x130 [kvm]
lock_acquire+0x65/0x2b0
lock_release+0x4e/0x320
kvm_mmu_faultin_pfn+0x1e1/0x690 [kvm]
gup_fast_fallback+0x63e/0xdf0
kvm_tdp_page_fault+0xeb/0x140 [kvm]
kvm_mmu_do_page_fault+0x12e/0x200 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_pre_fault_memory+0x16e/0x200 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory+0xc1/0x1f0 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory+0x116/0x1f0 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x3a4/0x6b0 [kvm]
clockevents_program_event+0x5d/0x170
__se_sys_ioctl+0x6d/0xb0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
do_syscall_64+0x10a/0x480
__irq_exit_rcu+0x8e/0x140
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
</TASK>
Fixes: 6e01b7601dfe ("KVM: x86: Implement kvm_arch_vcpu_pre_fault_memory()")
Reviewed-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260826164214.756512-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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