Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] KVM: arm64: Optimize TLBIs in the dirty logging path

[Oliver Upton]

Hi Raghavendra,

I find the commit title rather ambiguous. May I suggest:

  KVM: arm64: Use range-based TLBIs for write protection

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 09:53:45PM +0000, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:
> Currently the dirty-logging paths, including
> kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot() and kvm_mmu_wp_memory_region()
> ivalidates the entire VM's TLB entries using kvm_flush_remote_tlbs().
> As the range of IPAs is provided by these functions, this is highly
> inefficient on the systems which support FEAT_TLBIRANGE. Hence,
> use kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_range() to flush the TLBs instead.

This commit message gives a rather mechanical description of the commit.
Instead of describing the change, could you describe _why_ this is an
improvement over the VM-wide invalidation?

--
Thanks,
Oliver

> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 7 ++++++-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> index 00da570ed72bd..179520888c697 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -1433,7 +1433,12 @@ void kvm_arch_sync_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
>  void kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot(struct kvm *kvm,
>  					const struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
>  {
> -	kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
> +	phys_addr_t start, end;
> +
> +	start = memslot->base_gfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	end = (memslot->base_gfn + memslot->npages) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
> +	kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_range(kvm, start, end);
>  }
>  
>  static int kvm_vm_ioctl_set_device_addr(struct kvm *kvm,
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> index 70f76bc909c5d..e34b81f5922ce 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ static void kvm_mmu_wp_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, int slot)
>  	write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>  	stage2_wp_range(&kvm->arch.mmu, start, end);
>  	write_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> -	kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
> +	kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_range(kvm, start, end);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> -- 
> 2.39.0.314.g84b9a713c41-goog
> 
>