[PATCH 2/3] KVM: x86: Avoid guest page table walk when gpa_available is set

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Aug 17 2017 - 12:37:29 EST


From: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>

When a guest causes a page fault which requires emulation, the
vcpu->arch.gpa_available flag is set to indicate that cr2 contains a
valid GPA.

Currently, emulator_read_write_onepage() makes use of gpa_available flag
to avoid a guest page walk for a known MMIO regions. Lets not limit
the gpa_available optimization to just MMIO region. The patch extends
the check to avoid page walk whenever gpa_available flag is set.

Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
[Fix EPT=0 according to Wanpeng Li's fix, plus ensure VMX also uses the
new code. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1->v2: standardize on "nGPA" moniker, move gpa_available
assignment to x86.c

arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 6 ++++++
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 --
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 ----
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 20 +++++++-------------
5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 9e4862e0e978..6db0ed9cf59e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -685,8 +685,9 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
int pending_ioapic_eoi;
int pending_external_vector;

- /* GPA available (AMD only) */
+ /* GPA available */
bool gpa_available;
+ gpa_t gpa_val;

/* be preempted when it's in kernel-mode(cpl=0) */
bool preempted_in_kernel;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index f7598883920a..a2c592b14617 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -4843,6 +4843,12 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code,
enum emulation_result er;
bool direct = vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map || mmu_is_nested(vcpu);

+ /* With shadow page tables, fault_address contains a GVA or nGPA. */
+ if (vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map) {
+ vcpu->arch.gpa_available = true;
+ vcpu->arch.gpa_val = cr2;
+ }
+
if (unlikely(error_code & PFERR_RSVD_MASK)) {
r = handle_mmio_page_fault(vcpu, cr2, direct);
if (r == RET_MMIO_PF_EMULATE) {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index 1fa9ee5660f4..a603d0c14a5a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -4236,8 +4236,6 @@ static int handle_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

trace_kvm_exit(exit_code, vcpu, KVM_ISA_SVM);

- vcpu->arch.gpa_available = (exit_code == SVM_EXIT_NPF);
-
if (!is_cr_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_CR0_WRITE))
vcpu->arch.cr0 = svm->vmcb->save.cr0;
if (npt_enabled)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 45fb0ea78ee8..e2c8b33c35d1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -6393,9 +6393,7 @@ static int handle_ept_violation(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
error_code |= (exit_qualification & 0x100) != 0 ?
PFERR_GUEST_FINAL_MASK : PFERR_GUEST_PAGE_MASK;

- vcpu->arch.gpa_available = true;
vcpu->arch.exit_qualification = exit_qualification;
-
return kvm_mmu_page_fault(vcpu, gpa, error_code, NULL, 0);
}

@@ -6410,7 +6408,6 @@ static int handle_ept_misconfig(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
}

- vcpu->arch.gpa_available = true;
ret = kvm_mmu_page_fault(vcpu, gpa, PFERR_RSVD_MASK, NULL, 0);
if (ret >= 0)
return ret;
@@ -8644,7 +8641,6 @@ static int vmx_handle_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
u32 vectoring_info = vmx->idt_vectoring_info;

trace_kvm_exit(exit_reason, vcpu, KVM_ISA_VMX);
- vcpu->arch.gpa_available = false;

/*
* Flush logged GPAs PML buffer, this will make dirty_bitmap more
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index e10eda86bc7b..3f34d5f3db8d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -4657,25 +4657,18 @@ static int emulator_read_write_onepage(unsigned long addr, void *val,
*/
if (vcpu->arch.gpa_available &&
emulator_can_use_gpa(ctxt) &&
- vcpu_is_mmio_gpa(vcpu, addr, exception->address, write) &&
- (addr & ~PAGE_MASK) == (exception->address & ~PAGE_MASK)) {
- gpa = exception->address;
- goto mmio;
+ (addr & ~PAGE_MASK) == (vcpu->arch.gpa_val & ~PAGE_MASK)) {
+ gpa = vcpu->arch.gpa_val;
+ ret = vcpu_is_mmio_gpa(vcpu, addr, gpa, write);
+ } else {
+ ret = vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa(vcpu, addr, &gpa, exception, write);
}

- ret = vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa(vcpu, addr, &gpa, exception, write);
-
if (ret < 0)
return X86EMUL_PROPAGATE_FAULT;
-
- /* For APIC access vmexit */
- if (ret)
- goto mmio;
-
- if (ops->read_write_emulate(vcpu, gpa, val, bytes))
+ if (!ret && ops->read_write_emulate(vcpu, gpa, val, bytes))
return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;

-mmio:
/*
* Is this MMIO handled locally?
*/
@@ -7002,6 +6995,7 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (vcpu->arch.apic_attention)
kvm_lapic_sync_from_vapic(vcpu);

+ vcpu->arch.gpa_available = false;
r = kvm_x86_ops->handle_exit(vcpu);
return r;

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