Hi Radim,
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 09:33:52PM +0200, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>2014-09-12 17:06-0400, Liang Chen:
>> Using kvm_mmu_flush_tlb as the other places to make sure vcpu
>>  stat is incremented
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <[email protected]>
>> ---
>
>Good catch.
>
>>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> index bfe11cf..439682e 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> @@ -1810,7 +1810,7 @@ static void vmx_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int 
>> cpu)
>>              struct desc_ptr *gdt = &__get_cpu_var(host_gdt);
>>              unsigned long sysenter_esp;
>>  
>> -            kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH, vcpu);
>> +            kvm_mmu_flush_tlb(vcpu);
>>              local_irq_disable();
>>              crash_disable_local_vmclear(cpu);
>>  
>
>And to hijack this thread ...
>I noticed three other deficits in stat.tlb_flush, patch below.
>
>Do you prefer the current behavior?
>
>--- 8< ---
>KVM: x86: count actual tlb flushes
>
>- we count KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH requests, not actual flushes

So there maybe multiple requests accumulated at the point of kvm_check_request, 
if your patch account these accumulations correctly?

Regards,
Wanpeng Li 

>  (KVM can have multiple requests for one flush)
>- flushes from kvm_flush_remote_tlbs aren't counted
>- it's easy to make a direct request by mistake
>
>Solve these by postponing the counting to kvm_check_request().
>
>Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
>---
>(And what about a possible followup patch that replaces
> kvm_mmu_flush_tlb() with kvm_make_request() again?
> It would free the namespace a bit and we could call something
> similarly named from vcpu_enter_guest() to do the job.)
>
>diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>index 9314678..b41fd97 100644
>--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>@@ -3452,7 +3452,6 @@ static void nonpaging_init_context(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> 
> void kvm_mmu_flush_tlb(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
>-      ++vcpu->stat.tlb_flush;
>       kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH, vcpu);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_mmu_flush_tlb);
>diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>index 916e895..0f0ad08 100644
>--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>@@ -6041,8 +6041,10 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>               }
>               if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_MMU_SYNC, vcpu))
>                       kvm_mmu_sync_roots(vcpu);
>-              if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH, vcpu))
>+              if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH, vcpu)) {
>+                      ++vcpu->stat.tlb_flush;
>                       kvm_x86_ops->tlb_flush(vcpu);
>+              }
>               if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_REPORT_TPR_ACCESS, vcpu)) {
>                       vcpu->run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_TPR_ACCESS;
>                       r = 0;
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