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author | Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> | 2022-11-10 13:49:10 +0300 |
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committer | Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> | 2022-11-10 16:11:58 +0300 |
commit | 86bdf3ebcfe1ded055282536fecce13001874740 (patch) | |
tree | a5d026afbabe42b47025a8f9fdcec9e652898d47 /Documentation | |
parent | e8a18565e59303ac12c626a161d72bd890bd2062 (diff) | |
download | linux-86bdf3ebcfe1ded055282536fecce13001874740.tar.xz |
KVM: Support dirty ring in conjunction with bitmap
ARM64 needs to dirty memory outside of a VCPU context when VGIC/ITS is
enabled. It's conflicting with that ring-based dirty page tracking always
requires a running VCPU context.
Introduce a new flavor of dirty ring that requires the use of both VCPU
dirty rings and a dirty bitmap. The expectation is that for non-VCPU
sources of dirty memory (such as the VGIC/ITS on arm64), KVM writes to
the dirty bitmap. Userspace should scan the dirty bitmap before migrating
the VM to the target.
Use an additional capability to advertise this behavior. The newly added
capability (KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP) can't be enabled before
KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL on ARM64. In this way, the newly added
capability is treated as an extension of KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL.
Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110104914.31280-4-gshan@redhat.com
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 34 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index eee9f857a986..1f1b09aa6db4 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -8003,13 +8003,6 @@ flushing is done by the KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl). To achieve that, one needs to kick the vcpu out of KVM_RUN using a signal. The resulting vmexit ensures that all dirty GFNs are flushed to the dirty rings. -NOTE: the capability KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING and the corresponding -ioctl KVM_RESET_DIRTY_RINGS are mutual exclusive to the existing ioctls -KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG and KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG. After enabling -KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING with an acceptable dirty ring size, the virtual -machine will switch to ring-buffer dirty page tracking and further -KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG or KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG ioctls will fail. - NOTE: KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL is the only capability that should be exposed by weakly ordered architecture, in order to indicate the additional memory ordering requirements imposed on userspace when @@ -8018,6 +8011,33 @@ Architecture with TSO-like ordering (such as x86) are allowed to expose both KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING and KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL to userspace. +After enabling the dirty rings, the userspace needs to detect the +capability of KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP to see whether the +ring structures can be backed by per-slot bitmaps. With this capability +advertised, it means the architecture can dirty guest pages without +vcpu/ring context, so that some of the dirty information will still be +maintained in the bitmap structure. KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP +can't be enabled if the capability of KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_ACQ_REL +hasn't been enabled, or any memslot has been existing. + +Note that the bitmap here is only a backup of the ring structure. The +use of the ring and bitmap combination is only beneficial if there is +only a very small amount of memory that is dirtied out of vcpu/ring +context. Otherwise, the stand-alone per-slot bitmap mechanism needs to +be considered. + +To collect dirty bits in the backup bitmap, userspace can use the same +KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl. KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG isn't needed as long as all +the generation of the dirty bits is done in a single pass. Collecting +the dirty bitmap should be the very last thing that the VMM does before +considering the state as complete. VMM needs to ensure that the dirty +state is final and avoid missing dirty pages from another ioctl ordered +after the bitmap collection. + +NOTE: One example of using the backup bitmap is saving arm64 vgic/its +tables through KVM_DEV_ARM_{VGIC_GRP_CTRL, ITS_SAVE_TABLES} command on +KVM device "kvm-arm-vgic-its" when dirty ring is enabled. + 8.30 KVM_CAP_XEN_HVM -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.rst index d257eddbae29..e053124f77c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.rst @@ -52,7 +52,10 @@ KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_SAVE_TABLES save the ITS table data into guest RAM, at the location provisioned - by the guest in corresponding registers/table entries. + by the guest in corresponding registers/table entries. Should userspace + require a form of dirty tracking to identify which pages are modified + by the saving process, it should use a bitmap even if using another + mechanism to track the memory dirtied by the vCPUs. The layout of the tables in guest memory defines an ABI. The entries are laid out in little endian format as described in the last paragraph. |