Re: [GIT PULL] KVM: x86: MMU changes for 6.9

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On 3/8/24 23:36, Sean Christopherson wrote:
The bulk of the changes are TDP MMU improvements related to memslot deletion
(ChromeOS has a use case that "requires" frequent deletion of a GPU buffer).
The other highlight is allocating the write-tracking metadata on-demand, e.g.
so that distro kernels pay the memory cost of the arrays if and only if KVM
or KVMGT actually needs to shadow guest page tables.

The following changes since commit 41bccc98fb7931d63d03f326a746ac4d429c1dd3:

   Linux 6.8-rc2 (2024-01-28 17:01:12 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

   https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux.git tags/kvm-x86-mmu-6.9

for you to fetch changes up to a364c014a2c1ad6e011bc5fdb8afb9d4ba316956:

   kvm/x86: allocate the write-tracking metadata on-demand (2024-02-27 11:49:54 -0800)

Pulled, thanks.

Paolo

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KVM x86 MMU changes for 6.9:

  - Clean up code related to unprotecting shadow pages when retrying a guest
    instruction after failed #PF-induced emulation.

  - Zap TDP MMU roots at 4KiB granularity to minimize the delay in yielding if
    a reschedule is needed, e.g. if a high priority task needs to run.  Because
    KVM doesn't support yielding in the middle of processing a zapped non-leaf
    SPTE, zapping at 1GiB granularity can result in multi-millisecond lag when
    attempting to schedule in a high priority.

  - Rework TDP MMU root unload, free, and alloc to run with mmu_lock held for
    read, e.g. to avoid serializing vCPUs when userspace deletes a memslot.

  - Allocate write-tracking metadata on-demand to avoid the memory overhead when
    running kernels built with KVMGT support (external write-tracking enabled),
    but for workloads that don't use nested virtualization (shadow paging) or
    KVMGT.

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Andrei Vagin (1):
       kvm/x86: allocate the write-tracking metadata on-demand

Kunwu Chan (1):
       KVM: x86/mmu: Use KMEM_CACHE instead of kmem_cache_create()

Mingwei Zhang (1):
       KVM: x86/mmu: Don't acquire mmu_lock when using indirect_shadow_pages as a heuristic

Sean Christopherson (10):
       KVM: x86: Drop dedicated logic for direct MMUs in reexecute_instruction()
       KVM: x86: Drop superfluous check on direct MMU vs. WRITE_PF_TO_SP flag
       KVM: x86/mmu: Zap invalidated TDP MMU roots at 4KiB granularity
       KVM: x86/mmu: Don't do TLB flush when zappings SPTEs in invalid roots
       KVM: x86/mmu: Allow passing '-1' for "all" as_id for TDP MMU iterators
       KVM: x86/mmu: Skip invalid roots when zapping leaf SPTEs for GFN range
       KVM: x86/mmu: Skip invalid TDP MMU roots when write-protecting SPTEs
       KVM: x86/mmu: Check for usable TDP MMU root while holding mmu_lock for read
       KVM: x86/mmu: Alloc TDP MMU roots while holding mmu_lock for read
       KVM: x86/mmu: Free TDP MMU roots while holding mmy_lock for read

  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |   9 +++
  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c          |  37 +++++++-----
  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c   |  68 +++++++++++++++++++++-
  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c      | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.h      |   2 +-
  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |  35 +++++-------
  6 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)






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