[PATCH v4 2/2] KVM: arm64: Distinguish cases of memcache allocations completely

Yanan Wang
2021-04-09T03:38:09Z

With a guest translation fault, the memcache pages are not needed if KVM
is only about to install a new leaf entry into the existing page table.
And with a guest permission fault, the memcache pages are also not needed
for a write_fault in dirty-logging time if KVM is only about to update
the existing leaf entry instead of collapsing a block entry into a table.

By comparing fault_granule and vma_pagesize, cases that require allocations
from memcache and cases that don't can be distinguished completely.

Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 25 ++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 1eec9f63bc6f..05af40dc60c1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -810,19 +810,6 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
gfn = fault_ipa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);

- /*
- * Permission faults just need to update the existing leaf entry,
- * and so normally don't require allocations from the memcache. The
- * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
- * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
- */
- if (fault_status != FSC_PERM || (logging_active && write_fault)) {
- ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
- kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
- if (ret)
- return ret;
- }
-
mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
/*
* Ensure the read of mmu_notifier_seq happens before we call
@@ -880,6 +867,18 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
else if (cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC))
prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_X;

+ /*
+ * Allocations from the memcache are required only when granule of the
+ * lookup level where the guest fault happened exceeds vma_pagesize,
+ * which means new page tables will be created in the fault handlers.
+ */
+ if (fault_granule > vma_pagesize) {
+ ret = kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(memcache,
+ kvm_mmu_cache_min_pages(kvm));
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ }
+
/*
* Under the premise of getting a FSC_PERM fault, we just need to relax
* permissions only if vma_pagesize equals fault_granule. Otherwise,
--
2.19.1