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Revision 7be74942f184fdfba34ddd19a0d995deb34d4a03 authored by David Rientjes on 25 August 2020, 19:56:28 UTC, committed by Paolo Bonzini on 11 September 2020, 17:24:15 UTC
There may be many encrypted regions that need to be unregistered when a
SEV VM is destroyed.  This can lead to soft lockups.  For example, on a
host running 4.15:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#206 stuck for 11s! [t_virtual_machi:194348]
CPU: 206 PID: 194348 Comm: t_virtual_machi
RIP: 0010:free_unref_page_list+0x105/0x170
...
Call Trace:
 [<0>] release_pages+0x159/0x3d0
 [<0>] sev_unpin_memory+0x2c/0x50 [kvm_amd]
 [<0>] __unregister_enc_region_locked+0x2f/0x70 [kvm_amd]
 [<0>] svm_vm_destroy+0xa9/0x200 [kvm_amd]
 [<0>] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x47/0x200
 [<0>] kvm_put_kvm+0x1a8/0x2f0
 [<0>] kvm_vm_release+0x25/0x30
 [<0>] do_exit+0x335/0xc10
 [<0>] do_group_exit+0x3f/0xa0
 [<0>] get_signal+0x1bc/0x670
 [<0>] do_signal+0x31/0x130

Although the CLFLUSH is no longer issued on every encrypted region to be
unregistered, there are no other changes that can prevent soft lockups for
very large SEV VMs in the latest kernel.

Periodically schedule if necessary.  This still holds kvm->lock across the
resched, but since this only happens when the VM is destroyed this is
assumed to be acceptable.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Message-Id: <alpine.DEB.2.23.453.2008251255240.2987727@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Tip revision: 7be74942f184fdfba34ddd19a0d995deb34d4a03 authored by David Rientjes on 25 August 2020, 19:56:28 UTC
KVM: SVM: Periodically schedule when unregistering regions on destroy
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