linux-kernel - [PATCH 09/11] KVM: x86/mmu: Revert "KVM: x86/mmu: Remove is

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Date:   Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:46:10 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        James Harvey <jamespharvey20@...il.com>,
        Alex Willamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 09/11] KVM: x86/mmu: Revert "KVM: x86/mmu: Remove is_obsolete() call"

Now that the fast invalidate mechanism has been reintroduced, restore
the performance tweaks for fast invalidation that existed prior to its
removal.

Paraphrasing the original changelog (commit 5ff0568374ed2 was itself a
partial revert):

  Don't force reloading the remote mmu when zapping an obsolete page, as
  a MMU_RELOAD request has already been issued by kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast()
  immediately after incrementing mmu_valid_gen, i.e. after marking pages
  obsolete.

This reverts commit 5ff0568374ed2e585376a3832857ade5daccd381.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 84d916674529..bce19918ca5a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2752,7 +2752,12 @@ static bool __kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm,
 	} else {
 		list_move(&sp->link, &kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages);
 
-		if (!sp->role.invalid)
+		/*
+		 * Obsolete pages cannot be used on any vCPUs, see the comment
+		 * in kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast().  Note, is_obsolete_sp() also
+		 * treats invalid shadow pages as being obsolete.
+		 */
+		if (!is_obsolete_sp(kvm, sp))
 			kvm_reload_remote_mmus(kvm);
 	}
 
-- 
2.22.0