KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte

Currently, kvm zaps the large spte if write-protected is needed, the later
read can fault on that spte. Actually, we can make the large spte readonly
instead of making them un-present, the page fault caused by read access can
be avoided

The idea is from Avi:
| As I mentioned before, write-protecting a large spte is a good idea,
| since it moves some work from protect-time to fault-time, so it reduces
| jitter.  This removes the need for the return value.

This version has fixed the issue reported in 6b73a9606, the reason of that
issue is that fast_page_fault() directly sets the readonly large spte to
writable but only dirty the first page into the dirty-bitmap that means
other pages are missed. Fixed it by only the normal sptes (on the
PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL level) can be fast fixed

Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Xiao Guangrong
2014-04-17 17:06:14 +08:00
committed by Marcelo Tosatti
parent 92a476cbfc
commit c126d94f2c
2 changed files with 24 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -7315,8 +7315,12 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages(kvm, nr_mmu_pages);
/*
* Write protect all pages for dirty logging.
* Existing largepage mappings are destroyed here and new ones will
* not be created until the end of the logging.
*
* All the sptes including the large sptes which point to this
* slot are set to readonly. We can not create any new large
* spte on this slot until the end of the logging.
*
* See the comments in fast_page_fault().
*/
if ((change != KVM_MR_DELETE) && (mem->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES))
kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access(kvm, mem->slot);