[PATCH 31/50] KVM: Move guest pte dirty bit management to the guest pagetable walker

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Dec 23 2007 - 09:59:14 EST


This is more consistent with the accessed bit management, and makes the dirty
bit available earlier for other purposes.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/kvm/mmu.c | 5 +++++
drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 31 ++++++++-----------------------
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/mmu.c b/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
index d046ba8..e6616a6 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -199,6 +199,11 @@ static int is_writeble_pte(unsigned long pte)
return pte & PT_WRITABLE_MASK;
}

+static int is_dirty_pte(unsigned long pte)
+{
+ return pte & PT_DIRTY_MASK;
+}
+
static int is_io_pte(unsigned long pte)
{
return pte & PT_SHADOW_IO_MARK;
diff --git a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
index 8e1e4ca..da36e48 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr)(struct guest_walker *walker,
if (walker->level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL) {
walker->gfn = (*ptep & PT_BASE_ADDR_MASK)
>> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ if (write_fault && !is_dirty_pte(*ptep)) {
+ mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, table_gfn);
+ *ptep |= PT_DIRTY_MASK;
+ }
break;
}

@@ -153,6 +157,10 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr)(struct guest_walker *walker,
walker->gfn = (*ptep & PT_DIR_BASE_ADDR_MASK)
>> PAGE_SHIFT;
walker->gfn += PT_INDEX(addr, PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL);
+ if (write_fault && !is_dirty_pte(*ptep)) {
+ mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, table_gfn);
+ *ptep |= PT_DIRTY_MASK;
+ }
break;
}

@@ -194,12 +202,6 @@ err:
return 0;
}

-static void FNAME(mark_pagetable_dirty)(struct kvm *kvm,
- struct guest_walker *walker)
-{
- mark_page_dirty(kvm, walker->table_gfn[walker->level - 1]);
-}
-
static void FNAME(set_pte_common)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
u64 *shadow_pte,
gpa_t gaddr,
@@ -221,23 +223,6 @@ static void FNAME(set_pte_common)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
__FUNCTION__, *shadow_pte, (u64)gpte, access_bits,
write_fault, user_fault, gfn);

- if (write_fault && !dirty) {
- pt_element_t *guest_ent, *tmp = NULL;
-
- if (walker->ptep)
- guest_ent = walker->ptep;
- else {
- tmp = kmap_atomic(walker->page, KM_USER0);
- guest_ent = &tmp[walker->index];
- }
-
- *guest_ent |= PT_DIRTY_MASK;
- if (!walker->ptep)
- kunmap_atomic(tmp, KM_USER0);
- dirty = 1;
- FNAME(mark_pagetable_dirty)(vcpu->kvm, walker);
- }
-
/*
* We don't set the accessed bit, since we sometimes want to see
* whether the guest actually used the pte (in order to detect
--
1.5.3.7

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