Re: [PATCH 4/7] kvm mmu: implement necessary data structures forsecond huge page accounting

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Mar 29 2009 - 09:37:58 EST


Avi Kivity wrote:
Joerg Roedel wrote:
This patch adds the necessary data structures to take care of write
protections in place within a second huge page sized page.


+#ifdef KVM_PAGES_PER_LHPAGE
+ if (npages && !new.hpage_info) {
+ int hugepages = npages / KVM_PAGES_PER_LHPAGE;
+ if (npages % KVM_PAGES_PER_LHPAGE)
+ hugepages++;
+ if (base_gfn % KVM_PAGES_PER_LHPAGE)
+ hugepages++;

Consider a slot with base_gfn == 1 and npages == 1. This will have hugepages == 2, which is wrong.

I think the right calculation is

((base_gfn + npages - 1) / N) - (base_gfn / N) + 1

i.e. index of last page, plus one so we can store it.

The small huge page calculation is off as well.


I fixed the existing case with

commit 1a967084dbe97a2f4be84139d14e2d958d7ffc46
Author: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Mar 29 16:31:25 2009 +0300

KVM: MMU: Fix off-by-one calculating large page count
The large page initialization code concludes there are two large pages spanned
by a slot covering 1 (small) page starting at gfn 1. This is incorrect, and
also results in incorrect write_count initialization in some cases (base = 1,
npages = 513 for example).
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 8aa3b95..3d31557 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1076,6 +1076,7 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
int r;
gfn_t base_gfn;
unsigned long npages;
+ int largepages;
unsigned long i;
struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot;
struct kvm_memory_slot old, new;
@@ -1151,11 +1152,8 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
new.userspace_addr = 0;
}
if (npages && !new.lpage_info) {
- int largepages = npages / KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE;
- if (npages % KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE)
- largepages++;
- if (base_gfn % KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE)
- largepages++;
+ largepages = 1 + (base_gfn + npages - 1) / KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE;
+ largepages -= base_gfn / npages;

new.lpage_info = vmalloc(largepages * sizeof(*new.lpage_info));

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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