kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap_sem

When KVM handles a tdp fault it uses FOLL_NOWAIT. If the guest memory
has been swapped out or is behind a filemap, this will trigger async
readahead and return immediately. The rationale is that KVM will kick
back the guest with an "async page fault" and allow for some other
guest process to take over.

If async PFs are enabled the fault is retried asap from an async
workqueue. If not, it's retried immediately in the same code path. In
either case the retry will not relinquish the mmap semaphore and will
block on the IO. This is a bad thing, as other mmap semaphore users
now stall as a function of swap or filemap latency.

This patch ensures both the regular and async PF path re-enter the
fault allowing for the mmap semaphore to be relinquished in the case
of IO wait.

Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 8981cc882ed2..0f4196a0bc20 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1985,6 +1985,7 @@ static inline struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 #define FOLL_HWPOISON	0x100	/* check page is hwpoisoned */
 #define FOLL_NUMA	0x200	/* force NUMA hinting page fault */
 #define FOLL_MIGRATION	0x400	/* wait for page to replace migration entry */
+#define FOLL_TRIED	0x800	/* a retry, previous pass started an IO */
 
 typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t token, unsigned long addr,
 			void *data);