Hi Quentin,
On 2021/6/2 19:07, Quentin Perret wrote:
On Thursday 15 Apr 2021 at 19:50:32 (+0800), Yanan Wang wrote:
With a guest translation fault, the memcache pages are not needed if KVM
is only about to install a new leaf entry into the existing page table.
And with a guest permission fault, the memcache pages are also not needed
for a write_fault in dirty-logging time if KVM is only about to update
the existing leaf entry instead of collapsing a block entry into a table.
By comparing fault_granule and vma_pagesize, cases that require allocations
from memcache and cases that don't can be distinguished completely.
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index aa536392b308..9e35aa5d29f2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -895,19 +895,6 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
- /*
- * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
- * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
- * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
- * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
- */
- if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
- ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
- kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- }
-
mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
/*
* Ensure the read of mmu_notifier_seq happens before we call
@@ -970,6 +957,18 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
else if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC))
prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_X;
+ /*
+ * Allocations from the memcache are required only when granule of the
+ * lookup level where the guest fault happened exceeds vma_pagesize,
+ * which means new page tables will be created in the fault handlers.
+ */
+ if (fault_granule > vma_pagesize) {
+ ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
+ kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
You're now doing the top-up in the kvm->mmu_lock critical section. Isn't
this more or less what we try to avoid by using a memory cache?
Oh, right!
This patch intended to clean up the code and avoid the unnecessary top-ups,
but it's a bad idea to do the top-up when holding mmu_lock. I will rearrange
this part and keep it where it should be.
Thanks,
Yanan
Thanks,
Quentin
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