linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] Lazily allocate memslot rmaps

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Message-Id: <20210427223635.2711774-1-bgardon@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:36:29 -0700
From:   Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        Junaid Shahid <junaids@...gle.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Yulei Zhang <yulei.kernel@...il.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@...il.com>,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] Lazily allocate memslot rmaps

This series enables KVM to save memory when using the TDP MMU by waiting
to allocate memslot rmaps until they are needed. To do this, KVM tracks
whether or not a shadow root has been allocated. In order to get away
with not allocating the rmaps, KVM must also be sure to skip operations
which iterate over the rmaps. If the TDP MMU is in use and we have not
allocated a shadow root, these operations would essentially be op-ops
anyway. Skipping the rmap operations has a secondary benefit of avoiding
acquiring the MMU lock in write mode in many cases, substantially
reducing MMU lock contention.

This series was tested on an Intel Skylake machine. With the TDP MMU off
and on, this introduced no new failures on kvm-unit-tests or KVM selftests.

Ben Gardon (6):
  KVM: x86/mmu: Track if shadow MMU active
  KVM: x86/mmu: Skip rmap operations if shadow MMU inactive
  KVM: x86/mmu: Deduplicate rmap freeing in allocate_memslot_rmap
  KVM: x86/mmu: Factor out allocating memslot rmap
  KVM: x86/mmu: Protect kvm->memslots with a mutex
  KVM: x86/mmu: Lazily allocate memslot rmaps

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  20 +++++
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c          | 153 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h |   2 +
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c      |   6 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.h      |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
 include/linux/kvm_host.h        |   2 +
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c             |  48 +++++++---
 8 files changed, 283 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)

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