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Message-ID: <20230309175849.0000565e@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 17:58:49 +0200
From: Zhi Wang <zhi.wang.linux@...il.com>
To: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@...gle.com>
Cc: seanjc@...gle.com, pbonzini@...hat.com, bgardon@...gle.com,
dmatlack@...gle.com, jmattson@...gle.com, mizhang@...gle.com,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v4 05/18] KVM: x86/mmu: Add split_shadow_page_cache
pages to global count of MMU cache pages
On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 14:41:14 -0800
Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@...gle.com> wrote:
> Add pages in split_shadow_page_cache to the global counter
> kvm_total_unused_cached_pages. These pages will be freed by MMU shrinker
> in future commit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@...gle.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index df8dcb7e5de7..0ebb8a2eaf47 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -6149,7 +6149,9 @@ static void mmu_free_vm_memory_caches(struct kvm *kvm)
> {
> kvm_mmu_free_memory_cache(&kvm->arch.split_desc_cache);
> kvm_mmu_free_memory_cache(&kvm->arch.split_page_header_cache);
> - kvm_mmu_free_memory_cache(&kvm->arch.split_shadow_page_cache);
> + mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock);
> + mmu_free_sp_memory_cache(&kvm->arch.split_shadow_page_cache);
> + mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock);
Taking the lock of the calling path in the layer of cache topping/free layer
seems off.
My vote goes to have a lock for each cache and take the lock of the cache when
topping/free the cache. It is more self-contained and architecturally nice.
> }
>
> void kvm_mmu_uninit_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
> @@ -6303,7 +6305,7 @@ static int topup_split_caches(struct kvm *kvm)
> if (r)
> return r;
>
> - return kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(&kvm->arch.split_shadow_page_cache, 1);
> + return mmu_topup_sp_memory_cache(&kvm->arch.split_shadow_page_cache, 1);
> }
>
> static struct kvm_mmu_page *shadow_mmu_get_sp_for_split(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *huge_sptep)
> @@ -6328,6 +6330,7 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *shadow_mmu_get_sp_for_split(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *hu
> /* Direct SPs do not require a shadowed_info_cache. */
> caches.page_header_cache = &kvm->arch.split_page_header_cache;
> caches.shadow_page_cache = &kvm->arch.split_shadow_page_cache;
> + caches.count_shadow_page_allocation = true;
>
> /* Safe to pass NULL for vCPU since requesting a direct SP. */
> return __kvm_mmu_get_shadow_page(kvm, NULL, &caches, gfn, role);
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