[Virtio-fs] [PATCH 0/9] virtio-fs fixes

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 04:12:59PM -0700, Liu Bo wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 02:41:30PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Hi Liubo,
> > 
> > I have made some fixes and took some of yours and pushed latest snapshot
> > of my internal tree here.
> > 
> > https://github.com/rhvgoyal/linux/commits/virtio-fs-dev-5.1
> > 
> > Patches have been rebased to 5.1-rc5 kernel. I am thinking of updating
> > this branch frequently with latest code.
> 
> With this branch, generic/476 still got hang, and yes, it's related to
> "async page fault related events" just as what you've mentioned on #irc.
> 
> I confirmed this with kvm and kvmmmu tracepoints.
> 
> The tracepoints[1] showed that
> [1]: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/N9ngrthKCf/
> 
> ---
> handle_ept_violation
>   kvm_mmu_page_fault(error_code=182)
>     tdp_page_fault
>       fast_page_fault # spte not present
>       try_async_pf #queue a async_pf work and return RETRY
> 
> vcpu_run
>  kvm_check_async_pf_completion
>    kvm_arch_async_page_ready
>      tdp_page_fault(vcpu, work->gva, 0, true);
>        fast_page_fault(error_code == 0);
>        try_async_pf # found hpa
>        __direct_map()
> 	  set_spte(error_code == 0) # won't set the write bit
> 
> handle_ept_violation
>   kvm_mmu_page_fault(error_code=1aa)
>     tdp_page_fault
>       fast_page_fault # spte present but no write bit
>       try_async_pf # no hpa again queue a async_pf work and return RETRY

So why there is no "hpa"?

I was running a different test. I mmaped a file in guest, then truncated
file to size 0 on host and then guest tried to read/write the mmaped
region.

This will trigger async page fault on host. But given file size is zero,
that page fault will not succeed.

Current async pf logic has no notion of failure. It assumes it will always
succeed. It does not even check the return code of
get_user_pages_remote(), which can return error.

So there are few things to be done.

- Modify async pf logic so that it can it capture and report error.
- If guest user space mmaped() file in question, then send SIGBUS to
  process.
- If guest kernel is trying to access memory which async pf can't
  resolve, then create an escape path and return error to user
  space. (something like memcpy_mcsafe() I think).

I was playing with this and made some progress. But that work is not
complete. I thought of dealing with this problem later. If you are
curious, I have pushed my unfinished code here.

Kernel:
https://github.com/rhvgoyal/linux/commits/virtio-fs-dev-async-pf

Qemu:
https://github.com/rhvgoyal/qemu/commits/virtio-fs-async-pf

Thanks
Vivek