[PATCH 06/10] KVM: use 'writable' as a hint to map writable pfn
From: Xiao Guangrong
Date: Tue Jul 17 2012 - 10:43:58 EST
In current code, we always map writable pfn for the read-fault, in order
to support readonly memslot, we map writable pfn only if 'writable'
is not NULL
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 54fb47b..e9eab07 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1109,6 +1109,14 @@ static bool hva_to_pfn_fast(unsigned long addr, bool atomic, bool *async,
if (!(async || atomic))
return false;
+ /*
+ * Fast pin a writable pfn only if it is a write fault request
+ * or the caller allows to map a writable pfn for a read fault
+ * request.
+ */
+ if (!(write_fault || writable))
+ return false;
+
npages = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 1, page);
if (npages == 1) {
*pfn = page_to_pfn(page[0]);
@@ -1149,7 +1157,7 @@ static int hva_to_pfn_slow(unsigned long addr, bool *async, bool write_fault,
return npages;
/* map read fault as writable if possible */
- if (unlikely(!write_fault)) {
+ if (unlikely(!write_fault) && writable) {
struct page *wpage[1];
npages = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 1, wpage);
@@ -1165,6 +1173,20 @@ static int hva_to_pfn_slow(unsigned long addr, bool *async, bool write_fault,
return npages;
}
+/*
+ * Pin guest page in memory and return its pfn.
+ * @addr: host virtual address which maps memory to the guest
+ * @atomic: whether this function can sleep
+ * @async: whether this function need to wait IO complete if the
+ * host page is not in the memory
+ * @write_fault: whether we should get a writable host page
+ * @writable: whether it allows to map a writable host page for !@write_fault
+ *
+ * The function will map a writable host page for these two cases:
+ * 1): @write_fault = true
+ * 2): @write_fault = false && @writable, @writable will tell the caller
+ * whether the mapping is writable.
+ */
static pfn_t hva_to_pfn(unsigned long addr, bool atomic, bool *async,
bool write_fault, bool *writable)
{
--
1.7.7.6
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