KVM: x86/mmu: Reduce the update to the spte in FNAME(sync_spte)
authorLai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@antgroup.com>
Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:41:12 +0000 (23:41 +0800)
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:19:48 +0000 (17:19 -0700)
commite6722d9211b2aa5f195267faaa6858004b4f42a0
treebef6125cbc08f5a226b331df56250d4693b12c10
parentc3c6c9fc5d24bcafbbeda2edb521b70f5df052b7
KVM: x86/mmu: Reduce the update to the spte in FNAME(sync_spte)

Sometimes when the guest updates its pagetable, it adds only new gptes
to it without changing any existed one, so there is no point to update
the sptes for these existed gptes.

Also when the sptes for these unchanged gptes are updated, the AD
bits are also removed since make_spte() is called with prefetch=true
which might result unneeded TLB flushing.

Just do nothing if the gpte's permissions are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@antgroup.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216154115.710033-7-jiangshanlai@gmail.com
[sean: expand comment to call out A/D bits]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h