For EPT-violations that are triggered by a read, the pages are also mapped with
write permissions (if their memory region is also writable). That would avoid
getting yet another fault on the same page when a write occurs.
This optimization only happens when you have a "struct page" backing the memory
region. So also enable it for memory regions that do not have a "struct page".
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 97da45e..0efb089 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1534,6 +1534,8 @@ static kvm_pfn_t hva_to_pfn(unsigned long addr, bool atomic, bool *async,
goto retry;
if (r < 0)
pfn = KVM_PFN_ERR_FAULT;
+ if (writable)
+ *writable = true;
} else {
if (async && vma_is_valid(vma, write_fault))
*async = true;
--
2.7.4
