linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 5/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Account NX huge page disallowed iff huge page was requested

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Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2020 11:37:32 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...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, Junaid Shahid <junaids@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Account NX huge page disallowed iff huge page was requested

Condition the accounting of a disallowed huge NX page on the original
requested level of the page being greater than the current iterator
level.  This does two things: accounts the page if and only if a huge
page was actually disallowed, and accounts the shadow page if and only
if it was the level at which the huge page was disallowed.  For the
latter case, the previous logic would account all shadow pages used to
create the translation for the forced small page, e.g. even PML4, which
can't be a huge page on current hardware, would be accounted as having
been a disallowed huge page when using 5-level EPT.

The overzealous accounting is purely a performance issue, i.e. the
recovery thread will spuriously zap shadow pages, but otherwise the bad
behavior is harmless.

Cc: Junaid Shahid <junaids@...gle.com>
Fixes: b8e8c8303ff28 ("kvm: mmu: ITLB_MULTIHIT mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c         | 3 ++-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 39bc9bc1ac2f..0957795be384 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -3356,7 +3356,8 @@ static int __direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, u32 error_code,
 					      it.level - 1, true, ACC_ALL);
 
 			link_shadow_page(vcpu, it.sptep, sp);
-			if (is_tdp && huge_page_disallowed)
+			if (is_tdp && huge_page_disallowed &&
+			    req_level >= it.level)
 				account_huge_nx_page(vcpu->kvm, sp);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
index e88d2acfd805..7f00f266c75b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static int FNAME(fetch)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t addr,
 			sp = kvm_mmu_get_page(vcpu, base_gfn, addr,
 					      it.level - 1, true, direct_access);
 			link_shadow_page(vcpu, it.sptep, sp);
-			if (huge_page_disallowed)
+			if (huge_page_disallowed && req_level >= it.level)
 				account_huge_nx_page(vcpu->kvm, sp);
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.28.0