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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 4/6] KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all mmio sptes
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 05:50:08PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 06/27/2013 05:21 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:14:24PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:01:10PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:29:00AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:51:26PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>>>> This patch tries to introduce a very simple and scale way to invalidate
> >>>>> all mmio sptes - it need not walk any shadow pages and hold mmu-lock
> >>>>>
> >>>>> KVM maintains a global mmio valid generation-number which is stored in
> >>>>> kvm->memslots.generation and every mmio spte stores the current global
> >>>>> generation-number into his available bits when it is created
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When KVM need zap all mmio sptes, it just simply increase the global
> >>>>> generation-number. When guests do mmio access, KVM intercepts a MMIO #PF
> >>>>> then it walks the shadow page table and get the mmio spte. If the
> >>>>> generation-number on the spte does not equal the global generation-number,
> >>>>> it will go to the normal #PF handler to update the mmio spte
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Since 19 bits are used to store generation-number on mmio spte, we zap all
> >>>>> mmio sptes when the number is round
> >>>>>
> >>>> So this commit makes Fedora 9 32 bit reboot during boot, Fedora 9 64
> >>>> fails too, but I haven't checked what happens exactly.
> >>>>
> >>> Something wrong with gfn calculation during mmio:
> >>>
> >>> qemu-system-x86-17003 [000] 3962.625103: handle_mmio_page_fault: addr:c00ba6c0 gfn 100000000ba access a92
> >>> qemu-system-x86-17003 [000] 3962.774862: handle_mmio_page_fault: addr:ffffb170 gfn 100000fee00 access a92
> >>>
> >> Hmm, so I wounder why get_mmio_spte_gfn() does not clear gen bits.
> >>
> > Hmm, something like patch below fixes it. Will test more.
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> > index 1fd2c05..aec9c05 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> > @@ -260,7 +260,8 @@ static bool is_mmio_spte(u64 spte)
> >
> > static gfn_t get_mmio_spte_gfn(u64 spte)
> > {
> > - return (spte & ~shadow_mmio_mask) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > + u64 mask = generation_mmio_spte_mask(MMIO_MAX_GEN) | shadow_mmio_mask;
> > + return (spte & ~mask) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > }
>
> Looks nice.
>
The question is if get_mmio_spte_access() need the same treatment?

--
Gleb.


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