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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen: arm: improve VMID allocation.



On 09/17/2013 04:56 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> The VMID field is 8 bits. Rather than allowing only up to 256 VMs per host
> reboot before things start "acting strange" instead maintain a simple bitmap
> of used VMIDs and allocate them statically to guests upon creation.
> 
> This limits us to 256 concurrent VMs which is a reasonable improvement.
> Eventually we will want a proper scheme to allocate VMIDs on context switch.
> 
> The existing code reserves VMID==0, IIRC I thought this was "hypervisor
> context". Re-reading the ARM ARM I'm not spotting the bit which made me think
> this. However I haven't changed this behaviour here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: add a lock for the vmid allocator -- the p2m lock is not shared and so is
>     basically useless here
>     Add INVALID_VMID define and don't free such VMIDs, it indicates that we
>     weren't able to allocate a vmid for some reason
> ---
>  xen/arch/arm/p2m.c        | 71 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  xen/arch/arm/setup.c      |  2 ++
>  xen/include/asm-arm/p2m.h |  3 ++
>  3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c b/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c
> index 307c6d4..2d09fef 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/p2m.c
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>  #include <xen/lib.h>
>  #include <xen/errno.h>
>  #include <xen/domain_page.h>
> +#include <xen/bitops.h>
>  #include <asm/flushtlb.h>
>  #include <asm/gic.h>
>  
> @@ -306,6 +307,59 @@ int p2m_alloc_table(struct domain *d)
>      return 0;
>  }
>  
> +#define MAX_VMID 256
> +#define INVALID_VMID 0 /* VMID 0 is reserved */
> +
> +static spinlock_t vmid_alloc_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> +
> +/* VTTBR_EL2 VMID field is 8 bits. Using a bitmap here limits us to
> + * 256 concurrent domains. */
> +static DECLARE_BITMAP(vmid_mask, MAX_VMID);
> +
> +void p2m_vmid_allocator_init(void)
> +{
> +    set_bit(INVALID_VMID, vmid_mask);
> +}
> +
> +static int p2m_alloc_vmid(struct domain *d)
> +{
> +    struct p2m_domain *p2m = &d->arch.p2m;
> +
> +    int rc, nr;
> +
> +    spin_lock(&vmid_alloc_lock);
> +
> +    nr = find_first_zero_bit(vmid_mask, MAX_VMID);
> +
> +    ASSERT(nr != INVALID_VMID);
> +
> +    if ( nr == MAX_VMID )
> +    {
> +        rc = -EBUSY;
> +        printk(XENLOG_ERR "p2m.c: dom%d: VMID pool exhausted\n", 
> d->domain_id);
> +        goto out;
> +    }
> +
> +    set_bit(nr, vmid_mask);
> +
> +    p2m->vmid = nr;
> +
> +    rc = 0;
> +
> +out:
> +    spin_unlock(&vmid_alloc_lock);
> +    return rc;
> +}
> +
> +static void p2m_free_vmid(struct domain *d)
> +{
> +    struct p2m_domain *p2m = &d->arch.p2m;
> +    spin_lock(&vmid_alloc_lock);
> +    if ( p2m->vmid != INVALID_VMID )
> +        clear_bit(p2m->vmid, vmid_mask);
> +    spin_unlock(&vmid_alloc_lock);
> +}
> +
>  void p2m_teardown(struct domain *d)
>  {
>      struct p2m_domain *p2m = &d->arch.p2m;
> @@ -318,25 +372,34 @@ void p2m_teardown(struct domain *d)
>  
>      p2m->first_level = NULL;
>  
> +    p2m_free_vmid(d);
> +
>      spin_unlock(&p2m->lock);
>  }
>  
>  int p2m_init(struct domain *d)
>  {
>      struct p2m_domain *p2m = &d->arch.p2m;
> +    int rc = 0;
>  
>      spin_lock_init(&p2m->lock);
>      INIT_PAGE_LIST_HEAD(&p2m->pages);
>  
> -    /* XXX allocate properly */
> -    /* Zero is reserved */
> -    p2m->vmid = d->domain_id + 1;
> +    spin_lock(&p2m->lock);
> +    p2m->vmid = INVALID_VMID;
> +
> +    rc = p2m_alloc_vmid(d);
> +    if ( rc != 0 )
> +        goto err;
>  
>      d->arch.vttbr = 0;
>  
>      p2m->first_level = NULL;
>  
> -    return 0;
> +err:
> +    spin_unlock(&p2m->lock);
> +
> +    return rc;
>  }
>  
>  unsigned long gmfn_to_mfn(struct domain *d, unsigned long gpfn)
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/setup.c b/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> index 4b31623..4dfb56f 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> @@ -544,6 +544,8 @@ void __init start_xen(unsigned long boot_phys_offset,
>  
>      setup_virt_paging();
>  
> +    p2m_vmid_allocator_init();
> +
>      softirq_init();
>  
>      tasklet_subsys_init();
> diff --git a/xen/include/asm-arm/p2m.h b/xen/include/asm-arm/p2m.h
> index a00069b..c660820 100644
> --- a/xen/include/asm-arm/p2m.h
> +++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/p2m.h
> @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ struct p2m_domain {
>      uint8_t vmid;
>  };
>  
> +/* Initialise vmid allocator */
> +void p2m_vmid_allocator_init(void);
> +
>  /* Init the datastructures for later use by the p2m code */
>  int p2m_init(struct domain *d);
>  
> 


-- 
Julien Grall

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