linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] kvm/x86/mmu: handle invlpg on large pages

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Message-ID: <20090305211122.GA5660@amt.cnet>
Date:	Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:11:22 -0300
From:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] kvm/x86/mmu: handle invlpg on large pages

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:12:31PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h |   12 +++++++++---
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> index 79668ba..aa79396 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> @@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ out_unlock:
>  static void FNAME(invlpg)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva)
>  {
>  	struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator iterator;
> +	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
>  	pt_element_t gpte;
>  	gpa_t pte_gpa = -1;
>  	int level;
> @@ -451,12 +452,17 @@ static void FNAME(invlpg)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva)
>  	for_each_shadow_entry(vcpu, gva, iterator) {
>  		level = iterator.level;
>  		sptep = iterator.sptep;
> +		sp = page_header(__pa(sptep));
> +
> +		if (sp->role.direct) {
> +			/* mapped from a guest's large_pte */
> +			kvm_mmu_zap_page(vcpu->kvm, sp);
> +			kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
> +			return;
> +		}

If the guest has 32-bit pte's there might be:

- two large shadow entries to cover 4MB
- one large shadow entry and one shadow page with 512 4k entries
- two shadow pages with 512 4k entries each

So need to cover all this cases. 

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