[PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: Take KVM's SRCU lock only if steal time update is needed

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Fri Jan 22 2021 - 19:09:20 EST


Enter a SRCU critical section for a memslots lookup during steal time
update if and only if a steal time update is actually needed. Taking
the lock can be avoided if steal time is disabled by the guest, or if
KVM knows it has already flagged the vCPU as being preempted.

Reword the comment to be more precise as to exactly why memslots will
be queried.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 3f4b09d9f25b..4efaa858a8bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -4005,6 +4005,7 @@ static void kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct kvm_host_map map;
struct kvm_steal_time *st;
+ int idx;

if (!(vcpu->arch.st.msr_val & KVM_MSR_ENABLED))
return;
@@ -4012,9 +4013,15 @@ static void kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (vcpu->arch.st.preempted)
return;

+ /*
+ * Take the srcu lock as memslots will be accessed to check the gfn
+ * cache generation against the memslots generation.
+ */
+ idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu);
+
if (kvm_map_gfn(vcpu, vcpu->arch.st.msr_val >> PAGE_SHIFT, &map,
&vcpu->arch.st.cache, true))
- return;
+ goto out;

st = map.hva +
offset_in_page(vcpu->arch.st.msr_val & KVM_STEAL_VALID_BITS);
@@ -4022,22 +4029,17 @@ static void kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
st->preempted = vcpu->arch.st.preempted = KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED;

kvm_unmap_gfn(vcpu, &map, &vcpu->arch.st.cache, true, true);
+
+out:
+ srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, idx);
}

void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- int idx;
-
if (vcpu->preempted && !vcpu->arch.guest_state_protected)
vcpu->arch.preempted_in_kernel = !kvm_x86_ops.get_cpl(vcpu);

- /*
- * kvm_memslots() will be called by
- * kvm_write_guest_offset_cached() so take the srcu lock.
- */
- idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu);
kvm_steal_time_set_preempted(vcpu);
- srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, idx);
kvm_x86_ops.vcpu_put(vcpu);
vcpu->arch.last_host_tsc = rdtsc();
/*
--
2.30.0.280.ga3ce27912f-goog