On 12/06/2012 05:09 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:17:11AM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> There are two cases we need to adjust page size in set_spte:
>> 1): the one is other vcpu creates new sp in the window between
>> mapping_level()
>> and acquiring mmu-lock.
>> 2): the another case is the new sp is created by itself (page-fault path)
>> when
>> guest uses the target gfn as its page table.
>>
>> In current code, set_spte drop the spte and emulate the access for these
>> case,
>> it works not good:
>> - for the case 1, it may destroy the mapping established by other vcpu, and
>> do expensive instruction emulation.
>> - for the case 2, it may emulate the access even if the guest is accessing
>> the page which not used as page table. There is a example, 0~2M is used as
>> huge page in guest, in this huge page, only page 3 used as page table, then
>> guest read/writes on other pages can cause instruction emulation.
>>
>> Both of these cases can be fixed by allowing guest to retry the access, it
>> will refault, then we can establish the mapping by using small page
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>> 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>> index b875a9e..01d7c2a 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -2382,12 +2382,20 @@ static int set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64
>> *sptep,
>> || (!vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map && write_fault
>> && !is_write_protection(vcpu) && !user_fault)) {
>>
>> + /*
>> + * There are two cases:
>> + * - the one is other vcpu creates new sp in the window
>> + * between mapping_level() and acquiring mmu-lock.
>> + * - the another case is the new sp is created by itself
>> + * (page-fault path) when guest uses the target gfn as
>> + * its page table.
>> + * Both of these cases can be fixed by allowing guest to
>> + * retry the access, it will refault, then we can establish
>> + * the mapping by using small page.
>> + */
>> if (level > PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL &&
>> - has_wrprotected_page(vcpu->kvm, gfn, level)) {
>> - ret = 1;
>> - drop_spte(vcpu->kvm, sptep);
>> + has_wrprotected_page(vcpu->kvm, gfn, level))
>> goto done;
>> - }
>>
>> spte |= PT_WRITABLE_MASK | SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE;
>>
>> --
>> 1.7.7.6
>
> ACK.
>
> Does it fix your testcase?
No.
I will post the new version patch of improving reexecute_instruction.
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