From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: KVM: MMU: always invalidate and flush on spte page size change
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 13:28:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C023DC3.1090406@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100528124459.GA3734@amt.cnet>
On 05/28/2010 03:44 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Always invalidate spte and flush TLBs when changing page size, to make
> sure different sized translations for the same address are never cached
> in a CPU's TLB.
>
> The first case where this occurs is when a non-leaf spte pointer is
> overwritten by a leaf, large spte entry. This can happen after dirty
> logging is disabled on a memslot, for example.
>
> The second case is a leaf, large spte entry is overwritten with a
> non-leaf spte pointer, in __direct_map. Note this cannot happen now
> because the only potential source of such overwrite is dirty logging
> being enabled, which zaps all MMU pages. But this might change
> in the future, so better be robust against it.
>
> Noticed by Andrea.
>
> KVM-Stable-Tag
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti<mtosatti@redhat.com>
>
> Index: kvm/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> ===================================================================
> --- kvm.orig/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ kvm/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -1952,6 +1952,8 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu
>
> child = page_header(pte& PT64_BASE_ADDR_MASK);
> mmu_page_remove_parent_pte(child, sptep);
> + __set_spte(sptep, shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
> + kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
> } else if (pfn != spte_to_pfn(*sptep)) {
> pgprintk("hfn old %lx new %lx\n",
> spte_to_pfn(*sptep), pfn);
>
Applied this bit.
> @@ -2015,6 +2017,16 @@ static int __direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu
> break;
> }
>
> + if (is_shadow_present_pte(*iterator.sptep)&&
> + !is_large_pte(*iterator.sptep))
> + continue;
> +
> + if (is_large_pte(*iterator.sptep)) {
> + rmap_remove(vcpu->kvm, iterator.sptep);
> + __set_spte(iterator.sptep, shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
> + kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
> + }
> +
>
Don't we have exactly the same issue in FNAME(fetch)()?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-30 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-28 12:44 KVM: MMU: always invalidate and flush on spte page size change Marcelo Tosatti
2010-05-30 10:28 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-05-30 15:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-05-31 11:49 ` Avi Kivity
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