vmcs->apic_access_page is simply a token that the hypervisor puts into
the PFN of a 4KB EPTE (or PTE if using shadow-paging) that triggers
APIC-access VMExit or APIC virtualization logic whenever a CPU running
in VMX non-root mode read/write from/to this PFN.
As every write either triggers an APIC-access VMExit or write is
performed on vmcs->virtual_apic_page, the PFN pointed to by
vmcs->apic_access_page should never actually be touched by CPU.
Therefore, there is no need to mark vmcs02->apic_access_page as dirty
after unpin it on L2->L1 emulated VMExit or when L1 exit VMX operation.
Reviewed-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 20692e442d13..2506f431d51e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static void free_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vmx->nested.cached_shadow_vmcs12 = NULL;
/* Unpin physical memory we referred to in the vmcs02 */
if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) {
- kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.apic_access_page);
+ kvm_release_page_clean(vmx->nested.apic_access_page);
vmx->nested.apic_access_page = NULL;
}
kvm_vcpu_unmap(vcpu, &vmx->nested.virtual_apic_map, true);
@@ -2933,7 +2933,7 @@ static bool nested_get_vmcs12_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
* to it so we can release it later.
*/
if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) { /* shouldn't happen */
- kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.apic_access_page);
+ kvm_release_page_clean(vmx->nested.apic_access_page);
vmx->nested.apic_access_page = NULL;
}
page = kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page(vcpu, vmcs12->apic_access_addr);
@@ -4126,7 +4126,7 @@ void nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 exit_reason,
/* Unpin physical memory we referred to in vmcs02 */
if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) {
- kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.apic_access_page);
+ kvm_release_page_clean(vmx->nested.apic_access_page);
vmx->nested.apic_access_page = NULL;
}
kvm_vcpu_unmap(vcpu, &vmx->nested.virtual_apic_map, true);
--
2.20.1
