Re: [PATCH 1/4] KVM: MMU: don't drop spte if overwrite it from W to RO

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:30:22PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> We just need flush tlb if overwrite a writable spte with a read-only one
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |   19 +++++++++----------
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 4b6d54c..1a93ab4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -2044,6 +2044,15 @@ static int set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
>  	if (pte_access & ACC_WRITE_MASK)
>  		mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * If we overwrite a writable spte with a read-only one,
> +	 * flush remote TLBs. Otherwise rmap_write_protect will
> +	 * find a read-only spte, even though the writable spte
> +	 * might be cached on a CPU's TLB.
> +	 */
> +	else if (is_writable_pte(*sptep))
> +		ret = 1;
> +

The return value of set_spte indicates whether the gfn being mapped to
was write protected, not if a TLB flush is necessary.

>  set_pte:
>  	update_spte(sptep, spte);
>  done:
> @@ -2084,16 +2093,6 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
>  				 spte_to_pfn(*sptep), pfn);
>  			drop_spte(vcpu->kvm, sptep, shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
>  			kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
> -		/*
> -		 * If we overwrite a writable spte with a read-only one,
> -		 * drop it and flush remote TLBs. Otherwise rmap_write_protect
> -		 * will find a read-only spte, even though the writable spte
> -		 * might be cached on a CPU's TLB.
> -		 */
> -		} else if (is_writable_pte(*sptep) &&
> -			  (!(pte_access & ACC_WRITE_MASK) || !dirty)) {
> -			drop_spte(vcpu->kvm, sptep, shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
> -			kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
>  		} else
>  			was_rmapped = 1;

And here, flush will only happen if overwrite is RW->RO.