[PATCH v3 2/2] KVM: arm/arm64: Skip updating PTE entry if no change

[Punit Agrawal]

When there is contention on faulting in a particular page table entry
at stage 2, the break-before-make requirement of the architecture can
lead to additional refaulting due to TLB invalidation.

Avoid this by skipping a page table update if the new value of the PTE
matches the previous value.

Fixes: d5d8184d35c9 ("KVM: ARM: Memory virtualization setup")
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
index 2bb0b5dba412..c2b95a22959b 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
@@ -1118,6 +1118,10 @@ static int stage2_set_pte(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
 	/* Create 2nd stage page table mapping - Level 3 */
 	old_pte = *pte;
 	if (pte_present(old_pte)) {
+		/* Skip page table update if there is no change */
+		if (pte_val(old_pte) == pte_val(*new_pte))
+			return 0;
+
 		kvm_set_pte(pte, __pte(0));
 		kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa(kvm, addr);
 	} else {
-- 
2.18.0