[PATCH 24/33] KVM: MMU: Page table write flood protection

[Avi Kivity]

In fork() (or when we protect a page that is no longer a page table), we can
experience floods of writes to a page, which have to be emulated.  This is
expensive.

So, if we detect such a flood, zap the page so subsequent writes can proceed
natively.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -969,8 +969,17 @@ void kvm_mmu_pre_write(struct kvm_vcpu *
 	unsigned page_offset;
 	unsigned misaligned;
 	int level;
+	int flooded = 0;
 
 	pgprintk("%s: gpa %llx bytes %d\n", __FUNCTION__, gpa, bytes);
+	if (gfn == vcpu->last_pt_write_gfn) {
+		++vcpu->last_pt_write_count;
+		if (vcpu->last_pt_write_count >= 3)
+			flooded = 1;
+	} else {
+		vcpu->last_pt_write_gfn = gfn;
+		vcpu->last_pt_write_count = 1;
+	}
 	index = kvm_page_table_hashfn(gfn) % KVM_NUM_MMU_PAGES;
 	bucket = &vcpu->kvm->mmu_page_hash[index];
 	hlist_for_each_entry_safe(page, node, n, bucket, hash_link) {
@@ -978,11 +987,16 @@ void kvm_mmu_pre_write(struct kvm_vcpu *
 			continue;
 		pte_size = page->role.glevels == PT32_ROOT_LEVEL ? 4 : 8;
 		misaligned = (offset ^ (offset + bytes - 1)) & ~(pte_size - 1);
-		if (misaligned) {
+		if (misaligned || flooded) {
 			/*
 			 * Misaligned accesses are too much trouble to fix
 			 * up; also, they usually indicate a page is not used
 			 * as a page table.
+			 *
+			 * If we're seeing too many writes to a page,
+			 * it may no longer be a page table, or we may be
+			 * forking, in which case it is better to unmap the
+			 * page.
 			 */
 			pgprintk("misaligned: gpa %llx bytes %d role %x\n",
 				 gpa, bytes, page->role.word);
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h
@@ -238,6 +238,9 @@ struct kvm_vcpu {
 	struct kvm_mmu_page page_header_buf[KVM_NUM_MMU_PAGES];
 	struct kvm_mmu mmu;
 
+	gfn_t last_pt_write_gfn;
+	int   last_pt_write_count;
+
 	struct kvm_guest_debug guest_debug;
 
 	char fx_buf[FX_BUF_SIZE];
-
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