On 01/11/2014 11:12, James Hogan wrote:
> AFAICT all of the arch implementations of kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log()
> except x86 and ppc hv (i.e. ia60, mips, ppc pv, s390) already make use
> of the existing generic function kvm_get_dirty_log() to help implement
> their kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log functions, which all look pretty
> similar now except for TLB flushing.
>
> Would they not be a better base for a generic
> kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log()?
>
> It feels a bit wrong to add a generic higher level function which
> doesn't make use of the existing generic lower level abstraction.
>
> (Appologies if this has already been brought up in previous versions of
> the patchset, I haven't been tracking them).
I agree that we should make the interface look more like
kvm_get_dirty_log(). Here the steps are:
+ * 1. Take a snapshot of the bit and clear it if needed.
+ * 2. Write protect the corresponding page.
+ * 3. Flush TLB's if needed.
+ * 4. Copy the snapshot to the userspace.
and I believe we can swap 3 and 4, since (4) is just a copy of data and
it has no ordering relationship with the action of the guest. Once we
do that, we can rewrite code to look a lot like kvm_get_dirty_log(),
let's call it kvm_get_dirty_log_protect():
r = -EINVAL;
if (log->slot >= KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS)
goto out;
memslot = id_to_memslot(kvm->memslots, log->slot);
dirty_bitmap = memslot->dirty_bitmap;
r = -ENOENT;
if (!dirty_bitmap)
goto out;
n = kvm_dirty_bitmap_bytes(memslot);
dirty_bitmap_buffer = dirty_bitmap + n / sizeof(long);
memset(dirty_bitmap_buffer, 0, n);
spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
*is_dirty = false;
for (i = 0; i < n / sizeof(long); i++) {
unsigned long mask;
gfn_t offset;
if (!dirty_bitmap[i])
continue;
*is_dirty = true;
mask = xchg(&dirty_bitmap[i], 0);
dirty_bitmap_buffer[i] = mask;
offset = i * BITS_PER_LONG;
kvm_arch_write_protect_pt_masked(kvm, memslot, offset,
mask);
}
spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
r = -EFAULT;
if (copy_to_user(log->dirty_bitmap, dirty_bitmap_buffer, n))
goto out;
r = 0;
out:
return r;
where the TLB flushing is moved to the caller as in kvm_get_dirty_log
callers. Taking the slots lock would also be kept in the per-arch
kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log, again similar to PPC/MIPS/S390.
You can add a new Kconfig symbol, or define an implementation of
kvm_arch_write_protect_pt_masked that BUG()s for ia64/PPC/MIPS/S390.
BTW, you can leave the function in kvm_main.c.
Paolo
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