On 08/28/2013 03:23 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 09:02:04PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: >> Relax the tlb flush condition since we will write-protect the spte out of mmu >> lock. Note lockless write-protection only marks the writable spte to readonly >> and the spte can be writable only if both SPTE_HOST_WRITEABLE and >> SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE are set (that are tested by spte_is_locklessly_modifiable) >> >> This patch is used to avoid this kind of race: >> >> VCPU 0 VCPU 1 >> lockless wirte protection: >> set spte.w = 0 >> lock mmu-lock >> >> write protection the spte to sync shadow >> page, >> see spte.w = 0, then without flush tlb >> >> unlock mmu-lock >> >> !!! At this point, the shadow page can >> still be >> writable due to the corrupt tlb entry >> Flush all TLB >> >> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> --- >> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 3 ++- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c >> index 58283bf..5a40564 100644 >> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c >> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c >> @@ -600,7 +600,8 @@ static bool mmu_spte_update(u64 *sptep, u64 new_spte) >> * we always atomicly update it, see the comments in >> * spte_has_volatile_bits(). >> */ >> - if (is_writable_pte(old_spte) && !is_writable_pte(new_spte)) >> + if (spte_is_locklessly_modifiable(old_spte) && >> + !is_writable_pte(new_spte)) >> ret = true; > This will needlessly flush tlbs when dirty login is not in use (common > case) and old spte is non writable. Can you estimate how serious the > performance hit is?
If non write-protection caused by dirty log, the spte is always writable if SPTE_HOST_WRITEABLE and SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE are set. In other words, spte_is_locklessly_modifiable(old_spte) is the same as is_writable_pte(old_spte) in the common case. There are two cases causing unnecessary TLB flush that are 1) guest read faults on the spte write-protected by dirty log and uses a readonly host pfn to fix it. This is really rare since read access on the readonly can not trigger #PF. 2) guest requires write-protect caused by syncing shadow page. this is only needed if ept is disabled and in the most case, the guest has many sptes need to be write-protected. Unnecessary TLB flush is rare too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
