From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751931AbaHTA3t (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:29:49 -0400 Received: from e28smtp06.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.6]:57684 "EHLO e28smtp06.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751701AbaHTA3m (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:29:42 -0400 Message-ID: <53F3EBEE.1030107@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:29:34 +0800 From: Xiao Guangrong User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paolo Bonzini , David Matlack CC: Gleb Natapov , Avi Kivity , mtosatti@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: fix cache stale memslot info with correct mmio generation number References: <1407999713-3726-1-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <53F20653.2030204@redhat.com> <9AD43423-2FF3-422D-A5AD-61CAE6339CCC@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <53F24A49.2010807@redhat.com> <53F2C997.6070605@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <53F30AA4.4050803@redhat.com> <53F30FCD.3080109@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <53F312CE.9090004@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <53F312CE.9090004@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14082000-9574-0000-0000-000000B3E357 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/19/2014 05:03 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 19/08/2014 10:50, Xiao Guangrong ha scritto: >> Okay, what confused me it that it seems that the single line patch >> is ok to you. :) > > No, it was late and I was confused. :) > >> Now, do we really need to care the case 2? like David said: >> "Sorry I didn't explain myself very well: Since we can get a single wrong >> mmio exit no matter what, it has to be handled in userspace. So my point >> was, it doesn't really help to fix that one very specific way that it can >> happen, because it can just happen in other ways. (E.g. update memslots >> occurs after is_noslot_pfn() and before mmio exit)." >> >> What's your idea? >> >>> I think if you always treat the low bit as zero in mmio sptes, you can >>> do that without losing a bit of the generation. >> >> What's you did is avoiding cache a invalid generation number into spte, but >> actually if we can figure it out when we check mmio access, it's ok. Like the >> updated patch i posted should fix it, that way avoids doubly increase the number. > > Yes. > >> Okay, if you're interested increasing the number doubly, there is the simpler >> one: > > This wastes a bit in the mmio spte though. My idea is to increase the > memslots generation twice, but drop the low bit in the mmio spte. Yeah, really smart idea. :) Paolo/David, would you mind making a patch for this (+ the comments in David's patch)? Please feel free to add my: Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong