On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 01:52:26PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:54:32PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I got the spew at the bottom of the mail in a KVM guest using the KVM tools
> > and running trinity.
> >
> > I'm not quite sure how default_idle managed to trigger a pagefault, so that
> > part looks odd to me.
> >
> This is not regular page fault. This is async page fault that tells the
> guest that a page, previously swapped out by hypervisor, is now swapped
> back in and it can happen while vcpu is idle. The code does not leave
> idle state properly though. We probably need to call rcu_irq_enter()
> there. Will look into it.
>
The patch below solves it for me:
"Page ready" async PF can kick vcpu out of idle state much like IRQ.
We need to tell RCU about this.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index f0c6fd6..380079f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <asm/traps.h>
#include <asm/desc.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+#include <asm/idle.h>
static int kvmapf = 1;
@@ -253,7 +254,10 @@ do_async_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long
error_code)
kvm_async_pf_task_wait((u32)read_cr2());
break;
case KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_READY:
+ rcu_irq_enter();
+ exit_idle();
kvm_async_pf_task_wake((u32)read_cr2());
+ rcu_irq_exit();
break;
}
}
--
Gleb.
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