6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Chen Yu yu.c.chen@intel.com
commit e639222a51196c69c70b49b67098ce2f9919ed08 upstream.
The kernel can change spinlock behavior when running as a guest. But this guest-friendly behavior causes performance problems on bare metal.
The kernel uses a static key to switch between the two modes.
In theory, the static key is enabled by default (run in guest mode) and should be disabled for bare metal (and in some guests that want native behavior or paravirt spinlock).
A performance drop is reported when running encode/decode workload and BenchSEE cache sub-workload.
Bisect points to commit ce0a1b608bfc ("x86/paravirt: Silence unused native_pv_lock_init() function warning"). When CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS is disabled the virt_spin_lock_key is incorrectly set to true on bare metal. The qspinlock degenerates to test-and-set spinlock, which decreases the performance on bare metal.
Set the default value of virt_spin_lock_key to false. If booting in a VM, enable this key. Later during the VM initialization, if other high-efficient spinlock is preferred (e.g. paravirt-spinlock), or the user wants the native qspinlock (via nopvspin boot commandline), the virt_spin_lock_key is disabled accordingly.
This results in the following decision matrix:
X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR Y Y Y N CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS Y Y N Y/N PV spinlock Y N N Y/N
virt_spin_lock_key N Y/N Y N
Fixes: ce0a1b608bfc ("x86/paravirt: Silence unused native_pv_lock_init() function warning") Reported-by: Prem Nath Dey prem.nath.dey@intel.com Reported-by: Xiaoping Zhou xiaoping.zhou@intel.com Suggested-by: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Suggested-by: Qiuxu Zhuo qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com Suggested-by: Nikolay Borisov nik.borisov@suse.com Signed-off-by: Chen Yu yu.c.chen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov nik.borisov@suse.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240806112207.29792-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h | 12 +++++++----- arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h @@ -66,13 +66,15 @@ static inline bool vcpu_is_preempted(lon
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT /* - * virt_spin_lock_key - enables (by default) the virt_spin_lock() hijack. + * virt_spin_lock_key - disables by default the virt_spin_lock() hijack. * - * Native (and PV wanting native due to vCPU pinning) should disable this key. - * It is done in this backwards fashion to only have a single direction change, - * which removes ordering between native_pv_spin_init() and HV setup. + * Native (and PV wanting native due to vCPU pinning) should keep this key + * disabled. Native does not touch the key. + * + * When in a guest then native_pv_lock_init() enables the key first and + * KVM/XEN might conditionally disable it later in the boot process again. */ -DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(virt_spin_lock_key); +DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(virt_spin_lock_key);
/* * Shortcut for the queued_spin_lock_slowpath() function that allows --- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c @@ -71,13 +71,12 @@ DEFINE_PARAVIRT_ASM(pv_native_irq_enable DEFINE_PARAVIRT_ASM(pv_native_read_cr2, "mov %cr2, %rax", .noinstr.text); #endif
-DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(virt_spin_lock_key); +DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(virt_spin_lock_key);
void __init native_pv_lock_init(void) { - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) && - !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR)) - static_branch_disable(&virt_spin_lock_key); + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR)) + static_branch_enable(&virt_spin_lock_key); }
static void native_tlb_remove_table(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *table)