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Message-ID: <9d18a0edab6e25bf785fd3132bc5f345493a6649.camel@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 20:15:14 +0000
From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
To: "pbonzini@...hat.com" <pbonzini@...hat.com>, "seanjc@...gle.com"
	<seanjc@...gle.com>, "Zhao, Yan Y" <yan.y.zhao@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 10/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Disallow page merging (huge page
 adjustment) for mirror root

On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 11:06 +0800, Yan Zhao wrote:
> From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
> 
> Disallow page merging (huge page adjustment) for mirror root by leveraging
> the disallowed_hugepage_adjust().
> 
> [Yan: Passing is_mirror to disallowed_hugepage_adjust()]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Edgecombe, Rick P <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@...el.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c          | 6 +++---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h  | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c      | 7 ++++---
>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index a284dce227a0..b923deeeb62e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -3326,13 +3326,13 @@ void kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault
>  	fault->pfn &= ~mask;
>  }
>  
> -void disallowed_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_page_fault *fault, u64 spte, int cur_level)
> +void disallowed_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_page_fault *fault, u64 spte, int cur_level, bool is_mirror)
>  {
>  	if (cur_level > PG_LEVEL_4K &&
>  	    cur_level == fault->goal_level &&
>  	    is_shadow_present_pte(spte) &&
>  	    !is_large_pte(spte) &&
> -	    spte_to_child_sp(spte)->nx_huge_page_disallowed) {
> +	    (spte_to_child_sp(spte)->nx_huge_page_disallowed || is_mirror)) {
>  		/*
>  		 * A small SPTE exists for this pfn, but FNAME(fetch),
>  		 * direct_map(), or kvm_tdp_mmu_map() would like to create a
> @@ -3363,7 +3363,7 @@ static int direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault)
>  		 * large page, as the leaf could be executable.
>  		 */
>  		if (fault->nx_huge_page_workaround_enabled)
> -			disallowed_hugepage_adjust(fault, *it.sptep, it.level);
> +			disallowed_hugepage_adjust(fault, *it.sptep, it.level, false);
>  
>  		base_gfn = gfn_round_for_level(fault->gfn, it.level);
>  		if (it.level == fault->goal_level)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h
> index db8f33e4de62..1c1764f46e66 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h
> @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static inline int kvm_mmu_do_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t cr2_or_gpa,
>  int kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level(struct kvm *kvm,
>  			      const struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, gfn_t gfn);
>  void kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault);
> -void disallowed_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_page_fault *fault, u64 spte, int cur_level);
> +void disallowed_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_page_fault *fault, u64 spte, int cur_level, bool is_mirror);
>  
>  void track_possible_nx_huge_page(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp);
>  void untrack_possible_nx_huge_page(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp);
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
> index 68e323568e95..1559182038e3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
> @@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ static int FNAME(fetch)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault,
>  		 * large page, as the leaf could be executable.
>  		 */
>  		if (fault->nx_huge_page_workaround_enabled)
> -			disallowed_hugepage_adjust(fault, *it.sptep, it.level);
> +			disallowed_hugepage_adjust(fault, *it.sptep, it.level, false);
>  
>  		base_gfn = gfn_round_for_level(fault->gfn, it.level);
>  		if (it.level == fault->goal_level)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> index 405874f4d088..8ee01277cc07 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> @@ -1244,6 +1244,7 @@ int kvm_tdp_mmu_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault)
>  	struct tdp_iter iter;
>  	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
>  	int ret = RET_PF_RETRY;
> +	bool is_mirror = is_mirror_sp(root);
>  
>  	kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust(vcpu, fault);
>  
> @@ -1254,8 +1255,8 @@ int kvm_tdp_mmu_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault)
>  	for_each_tdp_pte(iter, kvm, root, fault->gfn, fault->gfn + 1) {
>  		int r;
>  
> -		if (fault->nx_huge_page_workaround_enabled)
> -			disallowed_hugepage_adjust(fault, iter.old_spte, iter.level);
> +		if (fault->nx_huge_page_workaround_enabled || is_mirror)

Maybe we should rename nx_huge_page_workaround_enabled to something more generic
and do the is_mirror logic in kvm_mmu_do_page_fault() when setting it. It should
shrink the diff and centralize the logic.

> +			disallowed_hugepage_adjust(fault, iter.old_spte, iter.level, is_mirror);
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * If SPTE has been frozen by another thread, just give up and
> @@ -1278,7 +1279,7 @@ int kvm_tdp_mmu_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault)
>  		 */
>  		sp = tdp_mmu_alloc_sp(vcpu);
>  		tdp_mmu_init_child_sp(sp, &iter);
> -		if (is_mirror_sp(sp))
> +		if (is_mirror)
>  			kvm_mmu_alloc_external_spt(vcpu, sp);
>  
>  		sp->nx_huge_page_disallowed = fault->huge_page_disallowed;

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