Commit 7be74942 authored Aug 25, 2020 by David Rientjes Committed by Paolo Bonzini Sep 11, 2020

KVM: SVM: Periodically schedule when unregistering regions on destroy



There may be many encrypted regions that need to be unregistered when a
SEV VM is destroyed.  This can lead to soft lockups.  For example, on a
host running 4.15:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#206 stuck for 11s! [t_virtual_machi:194348]
CPU: 206 PID: 194348 Comm: t_virtual_machi
RIP: 0010:free_unref_page_list+0x105/0x170
...
Call Trace:
 [<0>] release_pages+0x159/0x3d0
 [<0>] sev_unpin_memory+0x2c/0x50 [kvm_amd]
 [<0>] __unregister_enc_region_locked+0x2f/0x70 [kvm_amd]
 [<0>] svm_vm_destroy+0xa9/0x200 [kvm_amd]
 [<0>] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x47/0x200
 [<0>] kvm_put_kvm+0x1a8/0x2f0
 [<0>] kvm_vm_release+0x25/0x30
 [<0>] do_exit+0x335/0xc10
 [<0>] do_group_exit+0x3f/0xa0
 [<0>] get_signal+0x1bc/0x670
 [<0>] do_signal+0x31/0x130

Although the CLFLUSH is no longer issued on every encrypted region to be
unregistered, there are no other changes that can prevent soft lockups for
very large SEV VMs in the latest kernel.

Periodically schedule if necessary.  This still holds kvm->lock across the
resched, but since this only happens when the VM is destroyed this is
assumed to be acceptable.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Message-Id: <alpine.DEB.2.23.453.2008251255240.2987727@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

parent 15e9e35c

arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1106,6 +1106,7 @@ void sev_vm_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
		list_for_each_safe(pos, q, head) {
		__unregister_enc_region_locked(kvm,
		list_entry(pos, struct enc_region, list));
		cond_resched();
		}
		}

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