Re: [PATCH 13/22] kvm: mmu: Support invalidate range MMU notifier for TDP MMU

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On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 04:15:17PM -0700, Ben Gardon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 10:04 AM Sean Christopherson
> <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > > index 52d661a758585..0ddfdab942554 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> > > @@ -1884,7 +1884,14 @@ static int kvm_handle_hva(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long hva,
> > >  int kvm_unmap_hva_range(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> > >                       unsigned flags)
> > >  {
> > > -     return kvm_handle_hva_range(kvm, start, end, 0, kvm_unmap_rmapp);
> > > +     int r;
> > > +
> > > +     r = kvm_handle_hva_range(kvm, start, end, 0, kvm_unmap_rmapp);
> > > +
> > > +     if (kvm->arch.tdp_mmu_enabled)
> > > +             r |= kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_hva_range(kvm, start, end);
> >
> > Similar to an earlier question, is this intentionally additive, or can this
> > instead by:
> >
> >         if (kvm->arch.tdp_mmu_enabled)
> >                 r = kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_hva_range(kvm, start, end);
> >         else
> >                 r = kvm_handle_hva_range(kvm, start, end, 0, kvm_unmap_rmapp);
> >
> 
> It is intentionally additive so the legacy/shadow MMU can handle nested.

Duh.  Now everything makes sense.  I completely spaced on nested EPT.

I wonder if would be worth adding a per-VM sticky bit that is set when an
rmap is added so that all of these flows can skip the rmap walks when using
the TDP MMU without a nested guest.



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