From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
The following part of the original cover letter still applies...
"Currently we treat the shared_info page as guest memory and the VMM
informs KVM of its location using a GFN. However it is not guest memory as
such; it's an overlay page. So we pointlessly invalidate and re-cache a
mapping to the *same page* of memory every time the guest requests that
shared_info be mapped into its address space. Let's avoid doing that by
modifying the pfncache code to allow activation using a fixed userspace
HVA as well as a GPA."
However, this version of the series has dropped the other changes to try
to handle the default vcpu_info location directly in KVM. With all the
corner cases, it was getting sufficiently complex the functionality is
better off staying in the VMM. So, instead of that code, two new patches
have been added:
"xen: allow vcpu_info to be mapped by fixed HVA" is analogous to the
"xen: allow shared_info to be mapped by fixed HVA" patch that has been
present from the original version of the series and simply provides an
attribute to that vcpu_info can be mapped using a fixed userspace HVA,
which is desirable when using one embedded in the shared_info page (since
we similarly avoid pointless cache invalidations).
"selftests / xen: re-map vcpu_info using HVA rather than GPA" is just a
small addition to the 'xen_shinfo_test' selftest to swizzle the vcpu_info
mapping to show that there's no functional change.
Paul Durrant (10):
KVM: pfncache: add a map helper function
KVM: pfncache: add a mark-dirty helper
KVM: pfncache: add a helper to get the gpa
KVM: pfncache: base offset check on khva rather than gpa
KVM: pfncache: allow a cache to be activated with a fixed (userspace)
HVA
KVM: xen: allow shared_info to be mapped by fixed HVA
KVM: xen: allow vcpu_info to be mapped by fixed HVA
KVM: selftests / xen: map shared_info using HVA rather than GFN
KVM: selftests / xen: re-map vcpu_info using HVA rather than GPA
KVM: xen: advertize the KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_SHARED_INFO_HVA capability
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 53 +++++--
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 +-
arch/x86/kvm/xen.c | 89 ++++++++----
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 43 ++++++
include/linux/kvm_types.h | 3 +-
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 9 +-
.../selftests/kvm/x86_64/xen_shinfo_test.c | 59 ++++++--
virt/kvm/pfncache.c | 129 +++++++++++++-----
8 files changed, 302 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)
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Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
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