Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all mmio sptes

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 07:10:29 EST


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:05:20PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 06/27/2013 06:19 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > 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?
>
> It works okay since the Access only uses bit1 and bit2 (and in the direct mmu
> case, only use gfn). But i am happy to do the same change in get_mmio_spte_access()
> to make the code more clear.
>
It will fix output of handle_mmio_page_fault at least. Currently we have "access a92" there.

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Gleb.
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