From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
andrey@xdel.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] vhost: support upto 509 memory regions
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:02:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5582EBA6.1080607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150618164559-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
On 18/06/2015 16:47, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> However, with Igor's patches a memory_region_del_subregion will cause a
>> mmap(MAP_NORESERVE), which _does_ have the effect of making the hva go away.
>>
>> I guess one way to do it would be to alias the same page in two places,
>> one for use by vhost and one for use by everything else. However, the
>> kernel does not provide the means to do this kind of aliasing for
>> anonymous mmaps.
>
> Basically pages go away on munmap, so won't simple
> lock
> munmap
> mmap(MAP_NORESERVE)
> unlock
> do the trick?
Not sure I follow. Here we have this:
VCPU 1 VCPU 2 I/O worker
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
take big QEMU lock
p = address_space_map(hva, len)
pass I/O request to worker thread
read(fd, p, len)
release big QEMU lock
memory_region_del_subregion
mmap(MAP_NORESERVE)
read returns EFAULT
wake up VCPU 1
take big QEMU lock
EFAULT? What's that?
In another scenario you are less lucky: the memory accesses
between address_space_map/unmap aren't done in the kernel and
you get a plain old SIGSEGV.
This is not something that you can fix with a lock. The very
purpose of the map/unmap API is to do stuff asynchronously while
the lock is released.
Thanks,
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-18 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-16 16:33 [PATCH 0/5] vhost: support upto 509 memory regions Igor Mammedov
2015-06-16 16:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] vhost: use binary search instead of linear in find_region() Igor Mammedov
2015-06-16 21:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-16 21:13 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-16 16:33 ` [PATCH 2/5] vhost: extend memory regions allocation to vmalloc Igor Mammedov
2015-06-16 16:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] vhost: support upto 509 memory regions Igor Mammedov
2015-06-16 21:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-16 22:00 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 6:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 7:28 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 7:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 8:54 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 10:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 10:37 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 10:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 11:48 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 11:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 12:23 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 13:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 13:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 14:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 15:12 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 15:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 16:09 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 16:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 16:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 16:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 16:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 16:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 16:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 17:32 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 19:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 17:30 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-18 9:12 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-18 9:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-18 10:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-18 11:39 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-18 11:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-18 11:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-18 13:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-18 13:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-18 14:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-18 15:54 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-18 16:02 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-06-19 7:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 7:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 8:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 8:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 10:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 10:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 13:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 13:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 15:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 15:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 16:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 16:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 16:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 16:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 16:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 16:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 16:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 16:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-22 7:10 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-22 7:10 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-22 9:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-22 9:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 16:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 16:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-19 16:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 16:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-18 12:02 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 8:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-16 16:33 ` [PATCH 4/5] vhost: add per VQ memory region caching Igor Mammedov
2015-06-16 16:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] vhost: translate_desc: optimization for desc.len < region size Igor Mammedov
2015-06-16 21:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-16 21:16 ` [PATCH 0/5] vhost: support upto 509 memory regions Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-16 22:19 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 6:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 7:33 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-06-17 7:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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