For readonly memslot such as UEFI bios or UEFI var space, guest can
not write this memory space directly. So it is not necessary to track
dirty pages for readonly memslot. Here there is such optimization
in function kvm_arch_commit_memory_region().
Signed-off-by: Bibo Mao <maobibo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c
index c6351d13ca1b..1690828bd44b 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -444,6 +444,17 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
enum kvm_mr_change change)
{
int needs_flush;
+ u32 old_flags = old ? old->flags : 0;
+ u32 new_flags = new ? new->flags : 0;
+ bool log_dirty_pages = new_flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES;
+
+ /* only track memslot flags changed */
+ if (change != KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY)
+ return;
+
+ /* Discard dirty page tracking on readonly memslot */
+ if ((old_flags & new_flags) & KVM_MEM_READONLY)
+ return;
/*
* If dirty page logging is enabled, write protect all pages in the slot
@@ -454,9 +465,7 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
* MOVE/DELETE: The old mappings will already have been cleaned up by
* kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot()
*/
- if (change == KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY &&
- (!(old->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES) &&
- new->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES)) {
+ if (!(old_flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES) && log_dirty_pages) {
spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
/* Write protect GPA page table entries */
needs_flush = kvm_mkclean_gpa_pt(kvm, new->base_gfn,
--
2.39.3
