linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: fix cache stale memslot info with correct mmio generation number

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Message-ID: <53F3EBEE.1030107@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:29:34 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
CC:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>, Avi Kivity <avi.kivity@...il.com>,
	mtosatti@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: fix cache stale memslot info with correct mmio
 generation number

On 08/19/2014 05:03 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 19/08/2014 10:50, Xiao Guangrong ha scritto:
>> Okay, what confused me it that it seems that the single line patch
>> is ok to you. :)
> 
> No, it was late and I was confused. :)
> 
>> Now, do we really need to care the case 2? like David said:
>> "Sorry I didn't explain myself very well: Since we can get a single wrong
>> mmio exit no matter what, it has to be handled in userspace. So my point
>> was, it doesn't really help to fix that one very specific way that it can
>> happen, because it can just happen in other ways. (E.g. update memslots
>> occurs after is_noslot_pfn() and before mmio exit)."
>>
>> What's your idea?
>>
>>> I think if you always treat the low bit as zero in mmio sptes, you can 
>>> do that without losing a bit of the generation.
>>
>> What's you did is avoiding cache a invalid generation number into spte, but
>> actually if we can figure it out when we check mmio access, it's ok. Like the
>> updated patch i posted should fix it, that way avoids doubly increase the number.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Okay, if you're interested increasing the number doubly, there is the simpler
>> one:
> 
> This wastes a bit in the mmio spte though.  My idea is to increase the
> memslots generation twice, but drop the low bit in the mmio spte.

Yeah, really smart idea. :)

Paolo/David, would you mind making a patch for this (+ the comments in David's
patch)?

Please feel free to add my:
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

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