Re: [PATCH 12/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Batch TLB flushes from TDP MMU for MMU notifier change_spte

From: Ben Gardon
Date: Mon Nov 22 2021 - 16:45:21 EST


On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 8:51 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Batch TLB flushes (with other MMUs) when handling ->change_spte()
> notifications in the TDP MMU. The MMU notifier path in question doesn't
> allow yielding and correcty flushes before dropping mmu_lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@xxxxxxxxxx>

This seems very reasonable to me.

> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 13 ++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> index 8e446ef03022..06b500fab248 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> @@ -1182,13 +1182,12 @@ static bool set_spte_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct tdp_iter *iter,
> */
> bool kvm_tdp_mmu_set_spte_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range)
> {
> - bool flush = kvm_tdp_mmu_handle_gfn(kvm, range, set_spte_gfn);
> -
> - /* FIXME: return 'flush' instead of flushing here. */
> - if (flush)
> - kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(kvm, range->start, 1);
> -
> - return false;
> + /*
> + * No need to handle the remote TLB flush under RCU protection, the
> + * target SPTE _must_ be a leaf SPTE, i.e. cannot result in freeing a
> + * shadow page. See the WARN on pfn_changed in __handle_changed_spte().
> + */
> + return kvm_tdp_mmu_handle_gfn(kvm, range, set_spte_gfn);
> }
>
> /*
> --
> 2.34.0.rc2.393.gf8c9666880-goog
>