KVM: x86/mmu: Add "never" option to allow sticky disabling of nx_huge_pages
authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Fri, 2 Jun 2023 00:58:59 +0000 (17:58 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:42:26 +0000 (09:42 +0200)
commit8c737d950c2b6d69b86d05ef8fde85a9ab2d27a1
treea8607a67df4ade3c0807b8570f50e44b45a3bb41
parent45e3dfbf0e0c33e62614cb02c5df6b39a97d28cc
KVM: x86/mmu: Add "never" option to allow sticky disabling of nx_huge_pages

commit 0b210faf337314e4bc88e796218bc70c72a51209 upstream.

Add a "never" option to the nx_huge_pages module param to allow userspace
to do a one-way hard disabling of the mitigation, and don't create the
per-VM recovery threads when the mitigation is hard disabled.  Letting
userspace pinky swear that userspace doesn't want to enable NX mitigation
(without reloading KVM) allows certain use cases to avoid the latency
problems associated with spawning a kthread for each VM.

E.g. in FaaS use cases, the guest kernel is trusted and the host may
create 100+ VMs per logical CPU, which can result in 100ms+ latencies when
a burst of VMs is created.

Reported-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1679555884-32544-1-git-send-email-lirongqing@baidu.com
Cc: Yong He <zhuangel570@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Hoo <robert.hoo.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Hoo <robert.hoo.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230602005859.784190-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[ Resolved a small conflict in arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c::kvm_mmu_post_init_vm()
  which is due kvm_nx_lpage_recovery_worker() being renamed in upstream
  commit 55c510e26ab6181c132327a8b90c864e6193ce27 ]
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c