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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:09:55 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm mmu: reduce 50% memory usage
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:57:01PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
>
> I think users will enable tdp when their hardwares support ept or npt.
> This patch can reduce about 50% kvm mmu memory usage for they.
>
> This simple patch use the fact that:
>
> When sp->role.direct is set, sp->gfns does not contain any essential
> information, leaf sptes reachable from this sp are for a continuate
> guest physical memory range(a linear range).
> So sp->gfns[i](if it was set) equals to sp->gfn + i. (PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL)
> Obviously, it is not essential information, we can calculate it when need.
>
> It means we don't need sp->gfns when sp->role.direct=1,
> Thus we can save one page usage for every kvm_mmu_page.
>
> Note:
> Access to sp->gfns must be wrapped by kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn()
> or kvm_mmu_page_set_gfn().
> It is only exposed in FNAME(sync_page).
Lai,
You missed quadrant on 4mb large page emulation with shadow (see updated
patch below). Also for some reason i can't understand the assumption
does not hold for large sptes with TDP, so reverted for now.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 3266d73..a9edfdb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -393,6 +393,27 @@ static void mmu_free_rmap_desc(struct kvm_rmap_desc *rd)
kfree(rd);
}
+static gfn_t kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, int index)
+{
+ gfn_t gfn;
+
+ if (!sp->role.direct)
+ return sp->gfns[index];
+
+ gfn = sp->gfn + index * (1 << (sp->role.level - 1) * PT64_LEVEL_BITS);
+ gfn += sp->role.quadrant << PT64_LEVEL_BITS;
+
+ return gfn;
+}
+
+static void kvm_mmu_page_set_gfn(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, int index, gfn_t gfn)
+{
+ if (sp->role.direct)
+ BUG_ON(gfn != kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn(sp, index));
+ else
+ sp->gfns[index] = gfn;
+}
+
/*
* Return the pointer to the largepage write count for a given
* gfn, handling slots that are not large page aligned.
@@ -543,7 +564,7 @@ static int rmap_add(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *spte, gfn_t gfn)
return count;
gfn = unalias_gfn(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
sp = page_header(__pa(spte));
- sp->gfns[spte - sp->spt] = gfn;
+ kvm_mmu_page_set_gfn(sp, spte - sp->spt, gfn);
rmapp = gfn_to_rmap(vcpu->kvm, gfn, sp->role.level);
if (!*rmapp) {
rmap_printk("rmap_add: %p %llx 0->1\n", spte, *spte);
@@ -601,6 +622,7 @@ static void rmap_remove(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *spte)
struct kvm_rmap_desc *prev_desc;
struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
pfn_t pfn;
+ gfn_t gfn;
unsigned long *rmapp;
int i;
@@ -612,7 +634,8 @@ static void rmap_remove(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *spte)
kvm_set_pfn_accessed(pfn);
if (is_writable_pte(*spte))
kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
- rmapp = gfn_to_rmap(kvm, sp->gfns[spte - sp->spt], sp->role.level);
+ gfn = kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn(sp, spte - sp->spt);
+ rmapp = gfn_to_rmap(kvm, gfn, sp->role.level);
if (!*rmapp) {
printk(KERN_ERR "rmap_remove: %p %llx 0->BUG\n", spte, *spte);
BUG();
@@ -896,7 +919,8 @@ static void kvm_mmu_free_page(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
ASSERT(is_empty_shadow_page(sp->spt));
list_del(&sp->link);
__free_page(virt_to_page(sp->spt));
- __free_page(virt_to_page(sp->gfns));
+ if (!sp->role.direct)
+ __free_page(virt_to_page(sp->gfns));
kfree(sp);
++kvm->arch.n_free_mmu_pages;
}
@@ -907,13 +931,15 @@ static unsigned kvm_page_table_hashfn(gfn_t gfn)
}
static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_alloc_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
- u64 *parent_pte)
+ u64 *parent_pte, int direct)
{
struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
sp = mmu_memory_cache_alloc(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_header_cache, sizeof *sp);
sp->spt = mmu_memory_cache_alloc(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache, PAGE_SIZE);
- sp->gfns = mmu_memory_cache_alloc(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache, PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (!direct)
+ sp->gfns = mmu_memory_cache_alloc(&vcpu->arch.mmu_page_cache,
+ PAGE_SIZE);
set_page_private(virt_to_page(sp->spt), (unsigned long)sp);
list_add(&sp->link, &vcpu->kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages);
bitmap_zero(sp->slot_bitmap, KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS + KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS);
@@ -1352,7 +1378,7 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
if (role.direct)
role.cr4_pae = 0;
role.access = access;
- if (vcpu->arch.mmu.root_level <= PT32_ROOT_LEVEL) {
+ if (vcpu->arch.mmu.root_level == PT32_ROOT_LEVEL) {
quadrant = gaddr >> (PAGE_SHIFT + (PT64_PT_BITS * level));
quadrant &= (1 << ((PT32_PT_BITS - PT64_PT_BITS) * level)) - 1;
role.quadrant = quadrant;
@@ -1379,7 +1405,7 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
return sp;
}
++vcpu->kvm->stat.mmu_cache_miss;
- sp = kvm_mmu_alloc_page(vcpu, parent_pte);
+ sp = kvm_mmu_alloc_page(vcpu, parent_pte, direct);
if (!sp)
return sp;
sp->gfn = gfn;
@@ -3371,7 +3399,7 @@ void inspect_spte_has_rmap(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *sptep)
if (*sptep & PT_WRITABLE_MASK) {
rev_sp = page_header(__pa(sptep));
- gfn = rev_sp->gfns[sptep - rev_sp->spt];
+ gfn = kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn(rev_sp, sptep - rev_sp->spt);
if (!gfn_to_memslot(kvm, gfn)) {
if (!printk_ratelimit())
@@ -3385,8 +3413,7 @@ void inspect_spte_has_rmap(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *sptep)
return;
}
- rmapp = gfn_to_rmap(kvm, rev_sp->gfns[sptep - rev_sp->spt],
- rev_sp->role.level);
+ rmapp = gfn_to_rmap(kvm, gfn, rev_sp->role.level);
if (!*rmapp) {
if (!printk_ratelimit())
return;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
index 624b38f..2091590 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -592,6 +592,9 @@ static int FNAME(sync_page)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
offset = nr_present = 0;
+ /* direct kvm_mmu_page can not be unsync. */
+ BUG_ON(sp->role.direct);
+
if (PTTYPE == 32)
offset = sp->role.quadrant << PT64_LEVEL_BITS;
--
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