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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mmu_notifier, kvm: Introduce dirty bit tracking in spte and mmu notifier to help KSM dirty bit tracking
On 06/21/2011 04:32 PM, Nai Xia wrote:
> Introduced kvm_mmu_notifier_test_and_clear_dirty(), kvm_mmu_notifier_dirty_update()
> and their mmu_notifier interfaces to support KSM dirty bit tracking, which brings
> significant performance gain in volatile pages scanning in KSM.
> Currently, kvm_mmu_notifier_dirty_update() returns 0 if and only if intel EPT is
> enabled to indicate that the dirty bits of underlying sptes are not updated by
> hardware.
>


Can you quantify the performance gains?

> +int kvm_test_and_clear_dirty_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp,
> + unsigned long data)
> +{
> + u64 *spte;
> + int dirty = 0;
> +
> + if (!shadow_dirty_mask) {
> + WARN(1, "KVM: do NOT try to test dirty bit in EPT\n");
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + spte = rmap_next(kvm, rmapp, NULL);
> + while (spte) {
> + int _dirty;
> + u64 _spte = *spte;
> + BUG_ON(!(_spte& PT_PRESENT_MASK));
> + _dirty = _spte& PT_DIRTY_MASK;
> + if (_dirty) {
> + dirty = 1;
> + clear_bit(PT_DIRTY_SHIFT, (unsigned long *)spte);
> + }

Racy. Also, needs a tlb flush eventually.

> + spte = rmap_next(kvm, rmapp, spte);
> + }
> +out:
> + return dirty;
> +}
> +
> #define RMAP_RECYCLE_THRESHOLD 1000
>
>
> struct mmu_notifier_ops {
> + int (*dirty_update)(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
> + struct mm_struct *mm);
> +

I prefer to have test_and_clear_dirty() always return 1 in this case (if
the spte is writeable), and drop this callback.
> +int __mmu_notifier_dirty_update(struct mm_struct *mm)
> +{
> + struct mmu_notifier *mn;
> + struct hlist_node *n;
> + int dirty_update = 0;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(mn, n,&mm->mmu_notifier_mm->list, hlist) {
> + if (mn->ops->dirty_update)
> + dirty_update |= mn->ops->dirty_update(mn, mm);
> + }
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +

Should it not be &= instead?

> + return dirty_update;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * This function can't run concurrently against mmu_notifier_register
> * because mm->mm_users> 0 during mmu_notifier_register and exit_mmap

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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