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author | Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> | 2023-06-15 13:02:11 +0000 |
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committer | Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> | 2023-06-15 13:02:11 +0000 |
commit | 83510396c0765cc15454eaf445fb98bad773634e (patch) | |
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Merge branch kvm-arm64/eager-page-splitting into kvmarm/next
* kvm-arm64/eager-page-splitting:
: Eager Page Splitting, courtesy of Ricardo Koller.
:
: Dirty logging performance is dominated by the cost of splitting
: hugepages to PTE granularity. On systems that mere mortals can get their
: hands on, each fault incurs the cost of a full break-before-make
: pattern, wherein the broadcast invalidation and ensuing serialization
: significantly increases fault latency.
:
: The goal of eager page splitting is to move the cost of hugepage
: splitting out of the stage-2 fault path and instead into the ioctls
: responsible for managing the dirty log:
:
: - If manual protection is enabled for the VM, hugepage splitting
: happens in the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG ioctl. This is desirable as it
: provides userspace granular control over hugepage splitting.
:
: - Otherwise, if userspace relies on the legacy dirty log behavior
: (clear on collection), hugepage splitting is done at the moment dirty
: logging is enabled for a particular memslot.
:
: Support for eager page splitting requires explicit opt-in from
: userspace, which is realized through the
: KVM_CAP_ARM_EAGER_SPLIT_CHUNK_SIZE capability.
arm64: kvm: avoid overflow in integer division
KVM: arm64: Use local TLBI on permission relaxation
KVM: arm64: Split huge pages during KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG
KVM: arm64: Open-code kvm_mmu_write_protect_pt_masked()
KVM: arm64: Split huge pages when dirty logging is enabled
KVM: arm64: Add kvm_uninit_stage2_mmu()
KVM: arm64: Refactor kvm_arch_commit_memory_region()
KVM: arm64: Add kvm_pgtable_stage2_split()
KVM: arm64: Add KVM_CAP_ARM_EAGER_SPLIT_CHUNK_SIZE
KVM: arm64: Export kvm_are_all_memslots_empty()
KVM: arm64: Add helper for creating unlinked stage2 subtrees
KVM: arm64: Add KVM_PGTABLE_WALK flags for skipping CMOs and BBM TLBIs
KVM: arm64: Rename free_removed to free_unlinked
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index add067793b90..656bd293c8f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -8445,6 +8445,33 @@ structure. When getting the Modified Change Topology Report value, the attr->addr must point to a byte where the value will be stored or retrieved from. +8.40 KVM_CAP_ARM_EAGER_SPLIT_CHUNK_SIZE +--------------------------------------- + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_ARM_EAGER_SPLIT_CHUNK_SIZE +:Architectures: arm64 +:Type: vm +:Parameters: arg[0] is the new split chunk size. +:Returns: 0 on success, -EINVAL if any memslot was already created. + +This capability sets the chunk size used in Eager Page Splitting. + +Eager Page Splitting improves the performance of dirty-logging (used +in live migrations) when guest memory is backed by huge-pages. It +avoids splitting huge-pages (into PAGE_SIZE pages) on fault, by doing +it eagerly when enabling dirty logging (with the +KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES flag for a memory region), or when using +KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG. + +The chunk size specifies how many pages to break at a time, using a +single allocation for each chunk. Bigger the chunk size, more pages +need to be allocated ahead of time. + +The chunk size needs to be a valid block size. The list of acceptable +block sizes is exposed in KVM_CAP_ARM_SUPPORTED_BLOCK_SIZES as a +64-bit bitmap (each bit describing a block size). The default value is +0, to disable the eager page splitting. + 9. Known KVM API problems ========================= |