[Virtio-fs] [PATCH v4] kvm, x86: Exit to user space in case page fault error

[Vitaly Kuznetsov]

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 04:05:16PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > A. Just exit to user space with -EFAULT (using kvm request) and don't
>> >    wait for the accessing task to run on vcpu again. 
>> 
>> What if we also save the required information (RIP, GFN, ...) in the
>> guest along with the APF token
>
> Can you elaborate a bit more on this. You mean save GFN on stack before
> it starts waiting for PAGE_READY event?

When PAGE_NOT_PRESENT event is injected as #PF (for now) in the guest
kernel gets all the registers of the userspace process (except for CR2
which is replaced with a token). In case it is not trivial to extract
accessed GFN from this data we can extend the shared APF structure and
add it there, KVM has it when it queues APF.

>
>> so in case of -EFAULT we can just 'crash'
>> the guest and the required information can easily be obtained from
>> kdump? This will solve the debugging problem even for TDX/SEV-ES (if
>> kdump is possible there).
>
> Just saving additional info in guest will not help because there might
> be many tasks waiting and you don't know which GFN is problematic one.

But KVM knows which token caused the -EFAULT when we exit to userspace
(and we can pass this information to it) so to debug the situation you
take this token and then explore the kdump searching for what's
associated with this exact token.

-- 
Vitaly