linux/arch/x86/kvm
Ben Gardon 2de4085ccc KVM: x86/MMU: Recursively zap nested TDP SPs when zapping last/only parent
Recursively zap all to-be-orphaned children, unsynced or otherwise, when
zapping a shadow page for a nested TDP MMU.  KVM currently only zaps the
unsynced child pages, but not the synced ones.  This can create problems
over time when running many nested guests because it leaves unlinked
pages which will not be freed until the page quota is hit. With the
default page quota of 20 shadow pages per 1000 guest pages, this looks
like a memory leak and can degrade MMU performance.

In a recent benchmark, substantial performance degradation was observed:
An L1 guest was booted with 64G memory.
2G nested Windows guests were booted, 10 at a time for 20
iterations. (200 total boots)
Windows was used in this benchmark because they touch all of their
memory on startup.
By the end of the benchmark, the nested guests were taking ~10% longer
to boot. With this patch there is no degradation in boot time.
Without this patch the benchmark ends with hundreds of thousands of
stale EPT02 pages cluttering up rmaps and the page hash map. As a
result, VM shutdown is also much slower: deleting memslot 0 was
observed to take over a minute. With this patch it takes just a
few miliseconds.

Cc: Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20200923221406.16297-3-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-09-28 07:57:35 -04:00
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mmu KVM: x86/MMU: Recursively zap nested TDP SPs when zapping last/only parent 2020-09-28 07:57:35 -04:00
svm KVM: SEV: shorten comments around sev_clflush_pages 2020-09-28 07:57:24 -04:00
vmx KVM: VMX: Add a helper and macros to reduce boilerplate for sec exec ctls 2020-09-28 07:57:31 -04:00
cpuid.c KVM: x86: Unexport cpuid_query_maxphyaddr() 2020-09-28 07:57:26 -04:00
cpuid.h KVM: x86: Move illegal GPA helper out of the MMU code 2020-09-28 07:57:27 -04:00
debugfs.c KVM: let kvm_destroy_vm_debugfs clean up vCPU debugfs directories 2020-06-04 11:00:54 -04:00
emulate.c KVM: x86: emulating RDPID failure shall return #UD rather than #GP 2020-09-28 07:57:22 -04:00
hyperv.c KVM: x86: hyper-v: disallow configuring SynIC timers with no SynIC 2020-09-28 07:57:33 -04:00
hyperv.h x86/kvm/hyper-v: Add support for synthetic debugger interface 2020-06-01 04:26:11 -04:00
i8254.c kvm: i8254: remove redundant assignment to pointer s 2020-06-11 12:35:18 -04:00
i8254.h
i8259.c KVM: x86: Refactor picdev_write() to prevent Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks 2020-01-27 19:59:37 +01:00
ioapic.c kvm: ioapic: Restrict lazy EOI update to edge-triggered interrupts 2020-05-04 12:29:05 -04:00
ioapic.h kvm/x86: Remove redundant function implementations 2020-05-27 13:11:10 -04:00
irq_comm.c treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2020-08-23 17:36:59 -05:00
irq.c KVM: nSVM: extract svm_set_gif 2020-06-01 04:26:01 -04:00
irq.h kvm/x86: Remove redundant function implementations 2020-05-27 13:11:10 -04:00
Kconfig x86/kvm: Use generic xfer to guest work function 2020-07-24 15:05:01 +02:00
kvm_cache_regs.h KVM: x86: Mark CR4.TSD as being possibly owned by the guest 2020-07-03 12:16:28 -04:00
kvm_emulate.h ARM: 2020-04-02 15:13:15 -07:00
lapic.c KVM: nVMX: Morph notification vector IRQ on nested VM-Enter to pending PI 2020-09-28 07:57:22 -04:00
lapic.h KVM: nVMX: Morph notification vector IRQ on nested VM-Enter to pending PI 2020-09-28 07:57:22 -04:00
Makefile kvm: Disable objtool frame pointer checking for vmenter.S 2020-04-20 17:11:19 -04:00
mmu.h KVM: x86: Move illegal GPA helper out of the MMU code 2020-09-28 07:57:27 -04:00
mtrr.c KVM: x86: Protect MSR-based index computations in fixed_msr_to_seg_unit() from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks 2020-01-27 19:59:39 +01:00
pmu.c KVM/x86: pmu: Fix #GP condition check for RDPMC emulation 2020-07-09 07:08:37 -04:00
pmu.h kvm: x86: limit the maximum number of vPMU fixed counters to 3 2020-07-08 16:21:59 -04:00
trace.h KVM: SVM: Add new intercept word in vmcb_control_area 2020-09-28 07:57:15 -04:00
tss.h
x86.c KVM: x86: Add kvm_x86_ops hook to short circuit emulation 2020-09-28 07:57:19 -04:00
x86.h KVM: X86: Move handling of INVPCID types to x86 2020-09-28 07:57:17 -04:00