KVM: X86: Implement ring-based dirty memory tracking

This patch is heavily based on previous work from Lei Cao
<lei.cao@stratus.com> and Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>. [1]

KVM currently uses large bitmaps to track dirty memory.  These bitmaps
are copied to userspace when userspace queries KVM for its dirty page
information.  The use of bitmaps is mostly sufficient for live
migration, as large parts of memory are be dirtied from one log-dirty
pass to another.  However, in a checkpointing system, the number of
dirty pages is small and in fact it is often bounded---the VM is
paused when it has dirtied a pre-defined number of pages. Traversing a
large, sparsely populated bitmap to find set bits is time-consuming,
as is copying the bitmap to user-space.

A similar issue will be there for live migration when the guest memory
is huge while the page dirty procedure is trivial.  In that case for
each dirty sync we need to pull the whole dirty bitmap to userspace
and analyse every bit even if it's mostly zeros.

The preferred data structure for above scenarios is a dense list of
guest frame numbers (GFN).  This patch series stores the dirty list in
kernel memory that can be memory mapped into userspace to allow speedy
harvesting.

This patch enables dirty ring for X86 only.  However it should be
easily extended to other archs as well.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10471409/

Signed-off-by: Lei Cao <lei.cao@stratus.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201001012222.5767-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 63 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/trace/events/kvm.h b/include/trace/events/kvm.h
index 26cfb0fa8e7e..49d7d0fe29f6 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/kvm.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/kvm.h
@@ -399,6 +399,69 @@ TRACE_EVENT(kvm_halt_poll_ns,
 #define trace_kvm_halt_poll_ns_shrink(vcpu_id, new, old) \
 	trace_kvm_halt_poll_ns(false, vcpu_id, new, old)
 
+TRACE_EVENT(kvm_dirty_ring_push,
+	TP_PROTO(struct kvm_dirty_ring *ring, u32 slot, u64 offset),
+	TP_ARGS(ring, slot, offset),
+
+	TP_STRUCT__entry(
+		__field(int, index)
+		__field(u32, dirty_index)
+		__field(u32, reset_index)
+		__field(u32, slot)
+		__field(u64, offset)
+	),
+
+	TP_fast_assign(
+		__entry->index          = ring->index;
+		__entry->dirty_index    = ring->dirty_index;
+		__entry->reset_index    = ring->reset_index;
+		__entry->slot           = slot;
+		__entry->offset         = offset;
+	),
+
+	TP_printk("ring %d: dirty 0x%x reset 0x%x "
+		  "slot %u offset 0x%llx (used %u)",
+		  __entry->index, __entry->dirty_index,
+		  __entry->reset_index,  __entry->slot, __entry->offset,
+		  __entry->dirty_index - __entry->reset_index)
+);
+
+TRACE_EVENT(kvm_dirty_ring_reset,
+	TP_PROTO(struct kvm_dirty_ring *ring),
+	TP_ARGS(ring),
+
+	TP_STRUCT__entry(
+		__field(int, index)
+		__field(u32, dirty_index)
+		__field(u32, reset_index)
+	),
+
+	TP_fast_assign(
+		__entry->index          = ring->index;
+		__entry->dirty_index    = ring->dirty_index;
+		__entry->reset_index    = ring->reset_index;
+	),
+
+	TP_printk("ring %d: dirty 0x%x reset 0x%x (used %u)",
+		  __entry->index, __entry->dirty_index, __entry->reset_index,
+		  __entry->dirty_index - __entry->reset_index)
+);
+
+TRACE_EVENT(kvm_dirty_ring_exit,
+	TP_PROTO(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu),
+	TP_ARGS(vcpu),
+
+	TP_STRUCT__entry(
+	    __field(int, vcpu_id)
+	),
+
+	TP_fast_assign(
+	    __entry->vcpu_id = vcpu->vcpu_id;
+	),
+
+	TP_printk("vcpu %d", __entry->vcpu_id)
+);
+
 #endif /* _TRACE_KVM_MAIN_H */
 
 /* This part must be outside protection */