From c126d94f2c90ed9daee24a94f1c67aff7e9bf387 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiao Guangrong Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:06:14 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte Currently, kvm zaps the large spte if write-protected is needed, the later read can fault on that spte. Actually, we can make the large spte readonly instead of making them un-present, the page fault caused by read access can be avoided The idea is from Avi: | As I mentioned before, write-protecting a large spte is a good idea, | since it moves some work from protect-time to fault-time, so it reduces | jitter. This removes the need for the return value. This version has fixed the issue reported in 6b73a9606, the reason of that issue is that fast_page_fault() directly sets the readonly large spte to writable but only dirty the first page into the dirty-bitmap that means other pages are missed. Fixed it by only the normal sptes (on the PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL level) can be fast fixed Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++---------------- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index 6310704..ddf06963 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -1176,8 +1176,7 @@ static void drop_large_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep) /* * Write-protect on the specified @sptep, @pt_protect indicates whether - * spte writ-protection is caused by protecting shadow page table. - * @flush indicates whether tlb need be flushed. + * spte write-protection is caused by protecting shadow page table. * * Note: write protection is difference between drity logging and spte * protection: @@ -1186,10 +1185,9 @@ static void drop_large_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep) * - for spte protection, the spte can be writable only after unsync-ing * shadow page. * - * Return true if the spte is dropped. + * Return true if tlb need be flushed. */ -static bool -spte_write_protect(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *sptep, bool *flush, bool pt_protect) +static bool spte_write_protect(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *sptep, bool pt_protect) { u64 spte = *sptep; @@ -1199,17 +1197,11 @@ spte_write_protect(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *sptep, bool *flush, bool pt_protect) rmap_printk("rmap_write_protect: spte %p %llx\n", sptep, *sptep); - if (__drop_large_spte(kvm, sptep)) { - *flush |= true; - return true; - } - if (pt_protect) spte &= ~SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE; spte = spte & ~PT_WRITABLE_MASK; - *flush |= mmu_spte_update(sptep, spte); - return false; + return mmu_spte_update(sptep, spte); } static bool __rmap_write_protect(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp, @@ -1221,11 +1213,8 @@ static bool __rmap_write_protect(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp, for (sptep = rmap_get_first(*rmapp, &iter); sptep;) { BUG_ON(!(*sptep & PT_PRESENT_MASK)); - if (spte_write_protect(kvm, sptep, &flush, pt_protect)) { - sptep = rmap_get_first(*rmapp, &iter); - continue; - } + flush |= spte_write_protect(kvm, sptep, pt_protect); sptep = rmap_get_next(&iter); } @@ -2877,6 +2866,19 @@ static bool fast_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva, int level, goto exit; /* + * Do not fix write-permission on the large spte since we only dirty + * the first page into the dirty-bitmap in fast_pf_fix_direct_spte() + * that means other pages are missed if its slot is dirty-logged. + * + * Instead, we let the slow page fault path create a normal spte to + * fix the access. + * + * See the comments in kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(). + */ + if (sp->role.level > PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL) + goto exit; + + /* * Currently, fast page fault only works for direct mapping since * the gfn is not stable for indirect shadow page. * See Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt to get more detail. diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 7cc6466..63a828d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -7315,8 +7315,12 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages(kvm, nr_mmu_pages); /* * Write protect all pages for dirty logging. - * Existing largepage mappings are destroyed here and new ones will - * not be created until the end of the logging. + * + * All the sptes including the large sptes which point to this + * slot are set to readonly. We can not create any new large + * spte on this slot until the end of the logging. + * + * See the comments in fast_page_fault(). */ if ((change != KVM_MR_DELETE) && (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES)) kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(kvm, mem->slot); -- 2.7.4