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Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:27:37 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	gleb@...hat.com, avi.kivity@...il.com, mtosatti@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] KVM: MMU: add spte into rmap before logging dirty
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Il 30/07/2013 15:02, Xiao Guangrong ha scritto:
> kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log() write-protects the spte based on the dirty
> bitmap, we should ensure the writable spte can be found in rmap before the
> dirty bitmap is visible. Otherwise, we cleared the dirty bitmap and failed
> to write-protect the page
> 
> It need the memory barrier to prevent out-of-order that will be added in the
> later patch

Do you mean that the later patch will also introduce a memory barrier?

Paolo

> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 25 ++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 0fe56ad..58283bf 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -2425,6 +2425,7 @@ static int set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
>  {
>  	u64 spte;
>  	int ret = 0;
> +	bool remap = is_rmap_spte(*sptep);
>  
>  	if (set_mmio_spte(vcpu->kvm, sptep, gfn, pfn, pte_access))
>  		return 0;
> @@ -2490,6 +2491,14 @@ set_pte:
>  	if (mmu_spte_update(sptep, spte))
>  		kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
>  
> +	if (!remap) {
> +		if (rmap_add(vcpu, sptep, gfn) > RMAP_RECYCLE_THRESHOLD)
> +			rmap_recycle(vcpu, sptep, gfn);
> +
> +		if (level > PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL)
> +			++vcpu->kvm->stat.lpages;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (pte_access & ACC_WRITE_MASK)
>  		mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
>  done:
> @@ -2501,9 +2510,6 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
>  			 int level, gfn_t gfn, pfn_t pfn, bool speculative,
>  			 bool host_writable)
>  {
> -	int was_rmapped = 0;
> -	int rmap_count;
> -
>  	pgprintk("%s: spte %llx write_fault %d gfn %llx\n", __func__,
>  		 *sptep, write_fault, gfn);
>  
> @@ -2525,8 +2531,7 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
>  				 spte_to_pfn(*sptep), pfn);
>  			drop_spte(vcpu->kvm, sptep);
>  			kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(vcpu->kvm);
> -		} else
> -			was_rmapped = 1;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	if (set_spte(vcpu, sptep, pte_access, level, gfn, pfn, speculative,
> @@ -2544,16 +2549,6 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
>  		 is_large_pte(*sptep)? "2MB" : "4kB",
>  		 *sptep & PT_PRESENT_MASK ?"RW":"R", gfn,
>  		 *sptep, sptep);
> -	if (!was_rmapped && is_large_pte(*sptep))
> -		++vcpu->kvm->stat.lpages;
> -
> -	if (is_shadow_present_pte(*sptep)) {
> -		if (!was_rmapped) {
> -			rmap_count = rmap_add(vcpu, sptep, gfn);
> -			if (rmap_count > RMAP_RECYCLE_THRESHOLD)
> -				rmap_recycle(vcpu, sptep, gfn);
> -		}
> -	}
>  
>  	kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
>  }
> 

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