Re: [RFC PATCH v9 00/13] Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership

From: Nadav Amit
Date: Thu Apr 04 2019 - 12:44:50 EST


> On Apr 3, 2019, at 10:34 AM, Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is another update to the work Juerg, Tycho and Julian have
> done on XPFO.

Interesting work, but note that it triggers a warning on my system due to
possible deadlock. It seems that the patch-set disables IRQs in
xpfo_kunmap() and then might flush remote TLBs when a large page is split.
This is wrong, since it might lead to deadlocks.


[ 947.262208] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 9892 at kernel/smp.c:416 smp_call_function_many+0x92/0x250
[ 947.263767] Modules linked in: sb_edac vmw_balloon crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul joydev ghash_clmulni_intel input_leds intel_rapl_perf serio_raw mac_hid sch_fq_codel ib_iser rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock vmw_vmci iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ip_tables x_tables autofs4 btrfs zstd_compress raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx libcrc32c xor raid6_pq raid1 raid0 multipath linear hid_generic usbhid hid vmwgfx drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm drm aesni_intel psmouse aes_x86_64 crypto_simd cryptd glue_helper mptspi vmxnet3 scsi_transport_spi mptscsih ahci mptbase libahci i2c_piix4 pata_acpi
[ 947.274649] CPU: 6 PID: 9892 Comm: cc1 Not tainted 5.0.0+ #7
[ 947.275804] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 07/28/2017
[ 947.277704] RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many+0x92/0x250
[ 947.278640] Code: 3b 05 66 fc 4e 01 72 26 48 83 c4 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 8b 05 2b cc 7e 01 85 c0 75 bf 80 3d a8 99 4e 01 00 75 b6 <0f> 0b eb b2 44 89 c7 48 c7 c2 a0 9a 61 aa 4c 89 fe 44 89 45 d0 e8
[ 947.281895] RSP: 0000:ffffafe04538f970 EFLAGS: 00010046
[ 947.282821] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000006 RCX: 0000000000000001
[ 947.284084] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffa9078d70 RDI: ffffffffaa619aa0
[ 947.285343] RBP: ffffafe04538f9a8 R08: ffff9d7040000ff0 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 947.286596] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffffa9078d70
[ 947.287855] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffaa619aa0
[ 947.289118] FS: 00007f668b122ac0(0000) GS:ffff9d727fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 947.290550] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 947.291569] CR2: 00007f6688389004 CR3: 0000000224496006 CR4: 00000000003606e0
[ 947.292861] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 947.294125] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 947.295394] Call Trace:
[ 947.295854] ? load_new_mm_cr3+0xe0/0xe0
[ 947.296568] on_each_cpu+0x2d/0x60
[ 947.297191] flush_tlb_all+0x1c/0x20
[ 947.297846] __split_large_page+0x5d9/0x640
[ 947.298604] set_kpte+0xfe/0x260
[ 947.299824] get_page_from_freelist+0x1633/0x1680
[ 947.301260] ? lookup_address+0x2d/0x30
[ 947.302550] ? set_kpte+0x1e1/0x260
[ 947.303760] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x13f/0x2e0
[ 947.305137] alloc_pages_vma+0x7a/0x1c0
[ 947.306378] wp_page_copy+0x201/0xa30
[ 947.307582] ? generic_file_read_iter+0x96a/0xcf0
[ 947.308946] do_wp_page+0x1cc/0x420
[ 947.310086] __handle_mm_fault+0xc0d/0x1600
[ 947.311331] handle_mm_fault+0xe1/0x210
[ 947.312502] __do_page_fault+0x23a/0x4c0
[ 947.313672] ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x30
[ 947.314795] do_page_fault+0x2e/0xe0
[ 947.315878] ? page_fault+0x8/0x30
[ 947.316916] page_fault+0x1e/0x30
[ 947.317930] RIP: 0033:0x76581e
[ 947.318893] Code: eb 05 89 d8 48 8d 04 80 48 8d 34 c5 08 00 00 00 48 85 ff 74 04 44 8b 67 04 e8 de 80 08 00 81 e3 ff ff ff 7f 48 89 45 00 8b 10 <44> 89 60 04 81 e2 00 00 00 80 09 da 89 10 c1 ea 18 83 e2 7f 88 50
[ 947.323337] RSP: 002b:00007ffde06c0e40 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 947.324663] RAX: 00007f6688389000 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 0000000000000001
[ 947.326317] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000001000001 RDI: 0000000000000017
[ 947.327973] RBP: 00007f66883882d8 R08: 00000000032e05f0 R09: 00007f668b30e6f0
[ 947.329619] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 00000000032e05f0 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 947.331260] R13: 00007f6688388230 R14: 00007f6688388288 R15: 00007f668ac3b0a8
[ 947.332911] ---[ end trace 7d605a38c67d83ae ]---