Some memslot updates dont affect the gmap implementation,
e.g. setting/unsetting dirty tracking. Since a gmap update
will cause tlb flushes and segment table invalidations we
want to avoid that.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
{
int rc;
+ /* If the basics of the memslot do not change, we do not want
+ * to update the gmap. Every update causes several unnecessary
+ * segment translation exceptions. This is usually handled just
+ * fine by the normal fault handler + gmap, but it will also
+ * cause faults on the prefix page of running guest CPUs.
+ */
+ if (old->userspace_addr == mem->userspace_addr &&
+ old->base_gfn * PAGE_SIZE == mem->guest_phys_addr &&
+ old->npages * PAGE_SIZE == mem->memory_size)
+ return;
rc = gmap_map_segment(kvm->arch.gmap, mem->userspace_addr,
mem->guest_phys_addr, mem->memory_size);