Re: [PATCH 09/12] KVM: MMU: coalesce zapping page after mmu_sync_children

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On 02/25/2016 10:15 AM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
On 2016/02/24 22:17, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Move the call to kvm_mmu_flush_or_zap outside the loop.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
   arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 9 ++++++---
   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 725316df32ec..6d47b5c43246 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2029,24 +2029,27 @@ static void mmu_sync_children(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
   	struct mmu_page_path parents;
   	struct kvm_mmu_pages pages;
   	LIST_HEAD(invalid_list);
+	bool flush = false;

   	while (mmu_unsync_walk(parent, &pages)) {
   		bool protected = false;
-		bool flush = false;

   		for_each_sp(pages, sp, parents, i)
   			protected |= rmap_write_protect(vcpu, sp->gfn);

-		if (protected)
+		if (protected) {
   			kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
+			flush = false;
+		}

   		for_each_sp(pages, sp, parents, i) {
   			flush |= kvm_sync_page(vcpu, sp, &invalid_list);
   			mmu_pages_clear_parents(&parents);
   		}
-		kvm_mmu_flush_or_zap(vcpu, &invalid_list, false, flush);
   		cond_resched_lock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);

This may release the mmu_lock before committing the zapping.
Is it safe?  If so, we may want to see the reason in the changelog.

It is unsafe indeed, please do not do it.


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