Re: [PATCH 9/11] KVM/MMU: Flush tlb in the kvm_mmu_write_protect_pt_masked()

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/01/19 09:54, lantianyu1986@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  		rmap_head = __gfn_to_rmap(slot->base_gfn + gfn_offset + __ffs(mask),
>  					  PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL, slot);
> -		__rmap_write_protect(kvm, rmap_head, false);
> +		flush |= __rmap_write_protect(kvm, rmap_head, false);
>  
>  		/* clear the first set bit */
>  		mask &= mask - 1;
>  	}
> +
> +	if (flush && kvm_available_flush_tlb_with_range()) {
> +		kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(kvm,
> +				slot->base_gfn + gfn_offset,
> +				hweight_long(mask));

Mask is zero here, so this probably won't work.

In addition, I suspect calling the hypercall once for every 64 pages is
not very efficient.  Passing a flush list into
kvm_mmu_write_protect_pt_masked, and flushing in
kvm_arch_mmu_enable_log_dirty_pt_masked, isn't efficient either because
kvm_arch_mmu_enable_log_dirty_pt_masked is also called once per word.

I don't have any good ideas, except for moving the whole
kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect loop into architecture-specific code (which
is not the direction we want---architectures should share more code, not
less).

Paolo

> +		flush = false;
> +	}
> +