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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2024-11-08 04:56:31 -0500
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2024-11-14 13:20:04 -0500
commitd96c77bd4eeba469bddbbb14323d2191684da82a (patch)
tree696abc5ef3c089248adf612e3ffd74f0e16ba63e /virt
parent0586ade9e7f9491ccbe1e00975978cb9c2093006 (diff)
KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task
kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() is meant to be used for kthreads that can consume significant amounts of CPU time on behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example how it accesses its memory). Therefore it wants to charge the CPU time consumed by that work to the VM's container. However, because of these threads, cgroups which have kvm instances inside never complete freezing. This can be trivially reproduced: root@test ~# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test root@test ~# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs root@test ~# qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -enable-kvm and in another terminal: root@test ~# echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.freeze root@test ~# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.events populated 1 frozen 0 The cgroup freezing happens in the signal delivery path but kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker, while joining non-root cgroups, never calls into the signal delivery path and thus never gets frozen. Because the cgroup freezer determines whether a given cgroup is frozen by comparing the number of frozen threads to the total number of threads in the cgroup, the cgroup never becomes frozen and users waiting for the state transition may hang indefinitely. Since the worker kthread is tied to a user process, it's better if it behaves similarly to user tasks as much as possible, including being able to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT. In fact, vhost_task is all that kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() wanted to be and more: not only it inherits the userspace process's cgroups, it has other niceties like being parented properly in the process tree. Use it instead of the homegrown alternative. Incidentally, the new code is also better behaved when you flip recovery back and forth to disabled and back to enabled. If your recovery period is 1 minute, it will run the next recovery after 1 minute independent of how many times you flipped the parameter. (Commit message based on emails from Tejun). Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c103
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 103 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 27186b06518a..de2c11dae231 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -6426,106 +6426,3 @@ void kvm_exit(void)
kvm_irqfd_exit();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_exit);
-
-struct kvm_vm_worker_thread_context {
- struct kvm *kvm;
- struct task_struct *parent;
- struct completion init_done;
- kvm_vm_thread_fn_t thread_fn;
- uintptr_t data;
- int err;
-};
-
-static int kvm_vm_worker_thread(void *context)
-{
- /*
- * The init_context is allocated on the stack of the parent thread, so
- * we have to locally copy anything that is needed beyond initialization
- */
- struct kvm_vm_worker_thread_context *init_context = context;
- struct task_struct *parent;
- struct kvm *kvm = init_context->kvm;
- kvm_vm_thread_fn_t thread_fn = init_context->thread_fn;
- uintptr_t data = init_context->data;
- int err;
-
- err = kthread_park(current);
- /* kthread_park(current) is never supposed to return an error */
- WARN_ON(err != 0);
- if (err)
- goto init_complete;
-
- err = cgroup_attach_task_all(init_context->parent, current);
- if (err) {
- kvm_err("%s: cgroup_attach_task_all failed with err %d\n",
- __func__, err);
- goto init_complete;
- }
-
- set_user_nice(current, task_nice(init_context->parent));
-
-init_complete:
- init_context->err = err;
- complete(&init_context->init_done);
- init_context = NULL;
-
- if (err)
- goto out;
-
- /* Wait to be woken up by the spawner before proceeding. */
- kthread_parkme();
-
- if (!kthread_should_stop())
- err = thread_fn(kvm, data);
-
-out:
- /*
- * Move kthread back to its original cgroup to prevent it lingering in
- * the cgroup of the VM process, after the latter finishes its
- * execution.
- *
- * kthread_stop() waits on the 'exited' completion condition which is
- * set in exit_mm(), via mm_release(), in do_exit(). However, the
- * kthread is removed from the cgroup in the cgroup_exit() which is
- * called after the exit_mm(). This causes the kthread_stop() to return
- * before the kthread actually quits the cgroup.
- */
- rcu_read_lock();
- parent = rcu_dereference(current->real_parent);
- get_task_struct(parent);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- cgroup_attach_task_all(parent, current);
- put_task_struct(parent);
-
- return err;
-}
-
-int kvm_vm_create_worker_thread(struct kvm *kvm, kvm_vm_thread_fn_t thread_fn,
- uintptr_t data, const char *name,
- struct task_struct **thread_ptr)
-{
- struct kvm_vm_worker_thread_context init_context = {};
- struct task_struct *thread;
-
- *thread_ptr = NULL;
- init_context.kvm = kvm;
- init_context.parent = current;
- init_context.thread_fn = thread_fn;
- init_context.data = data;
- init_completion(&init_context.init_done);
-
- thread = kthread_run(kvm_vm_worker_thread, &init_context,
- "%s-%d", name, task_pid_nr(current));
- if (IS_ERR(thread))
- return PTR_ERR(thread);
-
- /* kthread_run is never supposed to return NULL */
- WARN_ON(thread == NULL);
-
- wait_for_completion(&init_context.init_done);
-
- if (!init_context.err)
- *thread_ptr = thread;
-
- return init_context.err;
-}