linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/6] KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all mmio sptes

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Date:	Fri,  7 Jun 2013 16:51:22 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	gleb@...hat.com
Cc:	avi.kivity@...il.com, mtosatti@...hat.com, pbonzini@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/6] KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all mmio sptes

Changelog:
V3:
  All of these changes are from Gleb's review:
  1) rename RET_MMIO_PF_EMU to RET_MMIO_PF_EMULATE.
  2) smartly adjust kvm generation number in kvm_current_mmio_generatio()
     to avoid kvm_memslots->generation overflow.

V2:
  - rename kvm_mmu_invalid_mmio_spte to kvm_mmu_invalid_mmio_sptes
  - use kvm->memslots->generation as kvm global generation-number
  - fix comment and codestyle
  - init kvm generation close to mmio wrap-around value
  - keep kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes

The current way is holding hot mmu-lock and walking all shadow pages, this
is not scale. This patchset tries to introduce a very simple and scale way
to fast invalidate all mmio sptes - it need not walk any shadow pages and hold
any locks.

The idea is simple:
KVM maintains a global mmio valid generation-number which is stored in
kvm->memslots.generation and every mmio spte stores the current global
generation-number into his available bits when it is created

When KVM need zap all mmio sptes, it just simply increase the global
generation-number. When guests do mmio access, KVM intercepts a MMIO #PF
then it walks the shadow page table and get the mmio spte. If the
generation-number on the spte does not equal the global generation-number,
it will go to the normal #PF handler to update the mmio spte

Since 19 bits are used to store generation-number on mmio spte, we zap all
mmio sptes when the number is round

Xiao Guangrong (6):
  KVM: MMU: retain more available bits on mmio spte
  KVM: MMU: store generation-number into mmio spte
  KVM: MMU: make return value of mmio page fault handler more readable
  KVM: MMU: fast invalidate all mmio sptes
  KVM: MMU: add tracepoint for check_mmio_spte
  KVM: MMU: init kvm generation close to mmio wrap-around value

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c              | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h              |  17 ++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/mmutrace.h         |  34 +++++++++--
 arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h      |  10 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c              |  12 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |  11 +++-
 7 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

-- 
1.8.1.4

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