On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 10:06:00AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 09:07:22AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024, Will Deacon wrote: > > > > handler could do the invalidation as part of its page-table walk (for > > > > example, it could use information about the page-table structure such > > > > as the level of the leaves to optimise the invalidation further), but > > > > this does at least avoid zapping the whole VMID on CPUs with range > > > > support. > > > > > > > > My only slight concern is that, should clear_flush_young() be extended > > > > to operate on more than a single page-at-a-time in future, this will > > > > silently end up invalidating the entire VMID for each memslot unless we > > > > teach kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range() to return !0 in that case. > > > > > > I'm not sure I follow the "entire VMID for each memslot" concern. Are you > > > worried about kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range() failing and triggering a VM-wide > > > flush? > > > > The arm64 implementation of kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range() > > unconditionally returns 0, so we could end up over-invalidating pretty > > badly if that doesn't change. It should be straightforward to fix, but > > I just wanted to point it out because it would be easy to miss too! > > Sorry, I'm still not following. 0==success, and gfn_range.{start,end} is scoped > precisely to the overlap between the memslot and hva range. Regardless of the > number of pages that are passed into clear_flush_young(), KVM should naturally > flush only the exact range being aged. The only hiccup would be if the hva range > straddles multiple memslots, but if userspace creates multiple memslots for a > single vma, then that's a userspace problem. Fair enough, but it's not a lot of effort to fix this (untested diff below) and if the code were to change in future so that __kvm_handle_hva_range() was more commonly used to span multiple memslots we probably wouldn't otherwise notice the silent over-invalidation for a while. Will --->8 diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c index 6981b1bc0946..1e34127f79b0 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c @@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ int kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs(struct kvm *kvm) int kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, u64 nr_pages) { + if (!system_supports_tlb_range()) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range(&kvm->arch.mmu, gfn << PAGE_SHIFT, nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT); return 0;