Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] A Solution to Re-enable hugetlb vmemmap optimize

[Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 05:44:48PM +0800, Nanyong Sun wrote:
> 
> 在 2024/2/7 20:20, Catalin Marinas 写道:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 11:21:17AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 11:12:52AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 01:04:15PM +0800, Nanyong Sun wrote:
> > > > > On 2024/1/26 2:06, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 05:44:33PM +0800, Nanyong Sun wrote:
> > > > > > > HVO was previously disabled on arm64 [1] due to the lack of necessary
> > > > > > > BBM(break-before-make) logic when changing page tables.
> > > > > > > This set of patches fix this by adding necessary BBM sequence when
> > > > > > > changing page table, and supporting vmemmap page fault handling to
> > > > > > > fixup kernel address translation fault if vmemmap is concurrently accessed.
> > > > > > I'm not keen on this approach. I'm not even sure it's safe. In the
> > > > > > second patch, you take the init_mm.page_table_lock on the fault path but
> > > > > > are we sure this is unlocked when the fault was taken?
> > > > > I think this situation is impossible. In the implementation of the second
> > > > > patch, when the page table is being corrupted
> > > > > (the time window when a page fault may occur), vmemmap_update_pte() already
> > > > > holds the init_mm.page_table_lock,
> > > > > and unlock it until page table update is done.Another thread could not hold
> > > > > the init_mm.page_table_lock and
> > > > > also trigger a page fault at the same time.
> > > > > If I have missed any points in my thinking, please correct me. Thank you.
> > > > It still strikes me as incredibly fragile to handle the fault and trying
> > > > to reason about all the users of 'struct page' is impossible. For example,
> > > > can the fault happen from irq context?
> > > The pte lock cannot be taken in irq context (which I think is what
> > > you're asking?)
> > With this patchset, I think it can: IRQ -> interrupt handler accesses
> > vmemmap -> faults -> fault handler in patch 2 takes the
> > init_mm.page_table_lock to wait for the vmemmap rewriting to complete.
> > Maybe it works if the hugetlb code disabled the IRQs but, as Will said,
> > such fault in any kernel context looks fragile.
> How about take a new lock with irq disabled during BBM, like:
> 
> +void vmemmap_update_pte(unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
> +{
> +    spin_lock_irq(NEW_LOCK);
> +    pte_clear(&init_mm, addr, ptep);
> +    flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
> +    set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, ptep, pte);
> +    spin_unlock_irq(NEW_LOCK);
> +}

I really think the only maintainable way to achieve this is to avoid the
possibility of a fault altogether.

Will