x86/domctl: have XEN_DOMCTL_getpageframeinfo3 preemptible
authorAnthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:16:09 +0000 (14:16 +0100)
committerJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:16:09 +0000 (14:16 +0100)
commit48599114d3ca24157c25f6684bb9322f6dca12bb
tree0a829ebca116f408a52dfcedc9511687b6b59172
parentba2ab00bbb8c74e311a252d816d68dee47c779a0
x86/domctl: have XEN_DOMCTL_getpageframeinfo3 preemptible

This hypercall can take a long time to finish because it attempts to
grab the `hostp2m' lock up to 1024 times. The accumulated wait for the
lock can take several seconds.

This can easily happen with a guest with 32 vcpus and plenty of RAM,
during localhost migration.

While the patch doesn't fix the problem with the lock contention and
the fact that the `hostp2m' lock is currently global (and not on a
single page), it is still an improvement to the hypercall. It will in
particular, down the road, allow dropping the arbitrary limit of 1024
entries per request.

Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
xen/arch/x86/domctl.c
xen/include/public/domctl.h