When we tested KVM under memory pressure, with THP enabled on the host,
we noticed that MMU notifier took a long time to invalidate huge pages.

Since the invalidation was done with mmu_lock held, it not only wasted
the CPU but also made the host harder to respond.

This patch mitigates this by using kvm_handle_hva_range().

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.tak...@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    2 ++
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c |    7 +++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h     |    1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c                  |    5 +++++
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                 |    3 +--
 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h 
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 50ea12f..572ad01 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
 
 struct kvm;
 extern int kvm_unmap_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva);
+extern int kvm_unmap_hva_range(struct kvm *kvm,
+                              unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 extern int kvm_age_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva);
 extern int kvm_test_age_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva);
 extern void kvm_set_spte_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva, pte_t pte);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c 
b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
index 1a470bc..3c635c0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_hv.c
@@ -870,6 +870,13 @@ int kvm_unmap_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva)
        return 0;
 }
 
+int kvm_unmap_hva_range(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long start, unsigned long 
end)
+{
+       if (kvm->arch.using_mmu_notifiers)
+               kvm_handle_hva_range(kvm, start, end, kvm_unmap_rmapp);
+       return 0;
+}
+
 static int kvm_age_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp,
                         unsigned long gfn)
 {
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 24b7647..5aab8d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -942,6 +942,7 @@ extern bool kvm_rebooting;
 
 #define KVM_ARCH_WANT_MMU_NOTIFIER
 int kvm_unmap_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva);
+int kvm_unmap_hva_range(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long start, unsigned long 
end);
 int kvm_age_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva);
 int kvm_test_age_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva);
 void kvm_set_spte_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva, pte_t pte);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 6903568..a5f0200 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1248,6 +1248,11 @@ int kvm_unmap_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva)
        return kvm_handle_hva(kvm, hva, 0, kvm_unmap_rmapp);
 }
 
+int kvm_unmap_hva_range(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long start, unsigned long 
end)
+{
+       return kvm_handle_hva_range(kvm, start, end, 0, kvm_unmap_rmapp);
+}
+
 void kvm_set_spte_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva, pte_t pte)
 {
        kvm_handle_hva(kvm, hva, (unsigned long)&pte, kvm_set_pte_rmapp);
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 636bd08..c597d00 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -332,8 +332,7 @@ static void kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct 
mmu_notifier *mn,
         * count is also read inside the mmu_lock critical section.
         */
        kvm->mmu_notifier_count++;
-       for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE)
-               need_tlb_flush |= kvm_unmap_hva(kvm, start);
+       need_tlb_flush = kvm_unmap_hva_range(kvm, start, end);
        need_tlb_flush |= kvm->tlbs_dirty;
        /* we've to flush the tlb before the pages can be freed */
        if (need_tlb_flush)
-- 
1.7.5.4

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