Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: MMU: fix accessed bit set on prefault path

Gleb Natapov
2010-11-30T13:29:15Z

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 05:36:07PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Retry #PF is the speculative path, so don't set the accessed bit,
> especially, stop prefault if shadow_accessed_mask = 0
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 12 +++++++-----
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index a4c5352..209da89 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ int kvm_pv_mmu_op(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long bytes,
> u8 kvm_get_guest_memory_type(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn);
>
> extern bool tdp_enabled;
> +extern u64 __read_mostly shadow_accessed_mask;
>
> enum emulation_result {
> EMULATE_DONE, /* no further processing */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 5b71415..f34987d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ static u64 __read_mostly shadow_notrap_nonpresent_pte;
> static u64 __read_mostly shadow_nx_mask;
> static u64 __read_mostly shadow_x_mask; /* mutual exclusive with nx_mask */
> static u64 __read_mostly shadow_user_mask;
> -static u64 __read_mostly shadow_accessed_mask;
> static u64 __read_mostly shadow_dirty_mask;
> +u64 __read_mostly shadow_accessed_mask;
>
> static inline u64 rsvd_bits(int s, int e)
> {
> @@ -2214,7 +2214,8 @@ static void direct_pte_prefetch(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep)
> }
>
> static int __direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t v, int write,
> - int map_writable, int level, gfn_t gfn, pfn_t pfn)
> + int map_writable, int level, gfn_t gfn, pfn_t pfn,
> + bool prefault)
> {
> struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator iterator;
> struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
> @@ -2229,7 +2230,7 @@ static int __direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t v, int write,
> pte_access &= ~ACC_WRITE_MASK;
> mmu_set_spte(vcpu, iterator.sptep, ACC_ALL, pte_access,
> 0, write, 1, &pt_write,
> - level, gfn, pfn, false, map_writable);
> + level, gfn, pfn, prefault, map_writable);
> direct_pte_prefetch(vcpu, iterator.sptep);
> ++vcpu->stat.pf_fixed;
> break;
> @@ -2321,7 +2322,8 @@ static int nonpaging_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t v, int write, gfn_t gfn,
> if (mmu_notifier_retry(vcpu, mmu_seq))
> goto out_unlock;
> kvm_mmu_free_some_pages(vcpu);
> - r = __direct_map(vcpu, v, write, map_writable, level, gfn, pfn);
> + r = __direct_map(vcpu, v, write, map_writable, level, gfn, pfn,
> + prefault);
> spin_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);
>
>
> @@ -2683,7 +2685,7 @@ static int tdp_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gpa, u32 error_code,
> goto out_unlock;
> kvm_mmu_free_some_pages(vcpu);
> r = __direct_map(vcpu, gpa, write, map_writable,
> - level, gfn, pfn);
> + level, gfn, pfn, prefault);
> spin_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);
>
> return r;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 410d2d1..83ed55f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -6178,6 +6178,9 @@ void kvm_arch_async_page_ready(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_async_pf *work)
> {
> int r;
>
> + if (!shadow_accessed_mask)
> + return;
> +
I don't get this. As far as I can see VMX inits shadow_accessed_mask to
be zero if ept is enabled. This line here means that we never prefault with ept
enabled. It is opposite from what it should be.

> if (!vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map || !work->arch.direct_map ||
> is_error_page(work->page))
> return;
> --
> 1.7.0.4

--
Gleb.