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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 5] v2: Nested-p2m cleanups and locking changes



On 06/27/11 17:48, Tim Deegan wrote:
At 14:15 +0100 on 27 Jun (1309184128), Tim Deegan wrote:
At 14:23 +0200 on 27 Jun (1309184586), Christoph Egger wrote:
  - Why is there a 10x increase in IPIs after this series?  I don't see
    what sequence of events sets the relevant cpumask bits to make this
    happen.

In patch 1 the code that sends the IPIs was outside of the loop and
moved into the loop.

Well, yes, but I don't see what that causes 10x IPIs, unless the vcpus
are burning through np2m tables very quickly indeed.  Maybe removing the
extra flushes for TLB control will do the trick.  I'll make a patch...

I think I get it - it's a race between p2m_flush_nestedp2m() on one CPU
flushing all the nested P2M tables and a VCPU on another CPU repeatedly
getting fresh ones.  Try the attached patch, which should cut back the
major source of p2m_flush_nestedp2m() calls.

Writing it, I realised that after my locking fix, p2m_flush_nestedp2m()
isn't safe because it can run in parallel with p2m_get_nestedp2m, which
reorders the array it walks.  I'll have to make the LRU-fu independent
of the array order; should be easy enough but I'll hold off committing
the current series until I've done it.


With Windows 7 XP mode I see a xen crash where p2m_get_nestedp2m() calls
nestedhvm_vmcx_flushtlb(nv->nv_p2m) with nv->nv_p2m being NULL.

nestedhvm_vmcx_flushtlb() assumes the parameter is not NULL.

(XEN) Xen call trace:
(XEN)    [<ffff82c4801b1d19>] nestedhvm_vmcx_flushtlb+0xf/0x52
(XEN)    [<ffff82c4801d270c>] p2m_get_nestedp2m+0x406/0x497
(XEN)    [<ffff82c4801bad7a>] nestedsvm_vmcb_set_nestedp2m+0x54/0x6a
(XEN)    [<ffff82c4801bc602>] nsvm_vcpu_vmrun+0x984/0xf14
(XEN)    [<ffff82c4801bcd53>] nsvm_vcpu_switch+0x1c1/0x226

Christoph


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