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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Handle "default" period when selectively waking" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From f47491d7f30b8ab084d0b1596697a7ea4561a894 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 01:57:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Handle "default" period when selectively waking
kthread

Account for the '0' being a default, "let KVM choose" period, when determining whether or not the recovery worker needs to be awakened in response to userspace reducing the period. Failure to do so results in the worker not being awakened properly, e.g. when changing the period from '0' to any small-ish value.

Fixes 4dfe4f40d845 ("kvm: x86: mmu: Make NX huge page recovery period configurable")
Cc [email protected]
Cc Junaid Shahid <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>

Message-Id: <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c +33 -15
index 0e017a3b7c27..6354297e92ae 100644
@@ -6171,23 +6171,46 @@ void kvm_mmu_module_exit(void)
 	mmu_audit_disable();
 }
 
+/*
+ * Calculate the effective recovery period, accounting for '0' meaning "let KVM
+ * select a halving time of 1 hour".  Returns true if recovery is enabled.
+ */
+static bool calc_nx_huge_pages_recovery_period(uint *period)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Use READ_ONCE to get the params, this may be called outside of the
+	 * param setters, e.g. by the kthread to compute its next timeout.
+	 */
+	bool enabled = READ_ONCE(nx_huge_pages);
+	uint ratio = READ_ONCE(nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio);
+
+	if (!enabled || !ratio)
+		return false;
+
+	*period = READ_ONCE(nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms);
+	if (!*period) {
+		/* Make sure the period is not less than one second.  */
+		ratio = min(ratio, 3600u);
+		*period = 60 * 60 * 1000 / ratio;
+	}
+	return true;
+}
+
 static int set_nx_huge_pages_recovery_param(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp)
 {
 	bool was_recovery_enabled, is_recovery_enabled;
 	uint old_period, new_period;
 	int err;
 
-	was_recovery_enabled = nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio;
-	old_period = nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms;
+	was_recovery_enabled = calc_nx_huge_pages_recovery_period(&old_period);
 
 	err = param_set_uint(val, kp);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	is_recovery_enabled = nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio;
-	new_period = nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms;
+	is_recovery_enabled = calc_nx_huge_pages_recovery_period(&new_period);
 
-	if (READ_ONCE(nx_huge_pages) && is_recovery_enabled &&
+	if (is_recovery_enabled &&
 	    (!was_recovery_enabled || old_period > new_period)) {
 		struct kvm *kvm;
 

@@ -6251,18 +6274,13 @@ static void kvm_recover_nx_lpages(struct kvm *kvm)
 
 static long get_nx_lpage_recovery_timeout(u64 start_time)
 {
-	uint ratio = READ_ONCE(nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio);
-	uint period = READ_ONCE(nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms);
+	bool enabled;
+	uint period;
 
-	if (!period && ratio) {
-		/* Make sure the period is not less than one second.  */
-		ratio = min(ratio, 3600u);
-		period = 60 * 60 * 1000 / ratio;
-	}
+	enabled = calc_nx_huge_pages_recovery_period(&period);
 
-	return READ_ONCE(nx_huge_pages) && ratio
-		? start_time + msecs_to_jiffies(period) - get_jiffies_64()
-		: MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
+	return enabled ? start_time + msecs_to_jiffies(period) - get_jiffies_64()
+		       : MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
 }
 
 static int kvm_nx_lpage_recovery_worker(struct kvm *kvm, uintptr_t data)