[RFC PATCH v2 1/4] arch/x86/kvm: Refactor l1d flush lifecycle management

[Balbir Singh]

Split out the allocation and free routines to be used in a follow
up set of patches (to reuse for L1D flushing).

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <sblbir@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h |  3 +++
 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile          |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c       | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c            | 25 +++------------------
 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 63feaf2a5f93..6419a4cef0e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 #include <asm-generic/cacheflush.h>
 #include <asm/special_insns.h>
 
+#define L1D_CACHE_ORDER 4
 void clflush_cache_range(void *addr, unsigned int size);
+void *alloc_l1d_flush_pages(void);
+void cleanup_l1d_flush_pages(void *l1d_flush_pages);
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_CACHEFLUSH_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
index 1ee83df407e3..c382f5824162 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
@@ -159,3 +159,4 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_64),y)
 endif
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT)	+= ima_arch.o
+obj-y						+= l1d_flush.o
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c b/arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..05f375c33423
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
+
+void *alloc_l1d_flush_pages(void)
+{
+	struct page *page;
+	void *l1d_flush_pages = NULL;
+	int i;
+
+	/*
+	 * This allocation for l1d_flush_pages is not tied to a VM/task's
+	 * lifetime and so should not be charged to a memcg.
+	 */
+	page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, L1D_CACHE_ORDER);
+	if (!page)
+		return NULL;
+	l1d_flush_pages = page_address(page);
+
+	/*
+	 * Initialize each page with a different pattern in
+	 * order to protect against KSM in the nested
+	 * virtualization case.
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < 1u << L1D_CACHE_ORDER; ++i) {
+		memset(l1d_flush_pages + i * PAGE_SIZE, i + 1,
+				PAGE_SIZE);
+	}
+	return l1d_flush_pages;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_l1d_flush_pages);
+
+void cleanup_l1d_flush_pages(void *l1d_flush_pages)
+{
+	free_pages((unsigned long)l1d_flush_pages, L1D_CACHE_ORDER);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cleanup_l1d_flush_pages);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 4d22b1b5e822..66d798e1a9d8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -202,14 +202,10 @@ static const struct {
 	[VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NOT_REQUIRED] = {"not required", false},
 };
 
-#define L1D_CACHE_ORDER 4
 static void *vmx_l1d_flush_pages;
 
 static int vmx_setup_l1d_flush(enum vmx_l1d_flush_state l1tf)
 {
-	struct page *page;
-	unsigned int i;
-
 	if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_L1TF)) {
 		l1tf_vmx_mitigation = VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NOT_REQUIRED;
 		return 0;
@@ -252,24 +248,9 @@ static int vmx_setup_l1d_flush(enum vmx_l1d_flush_state l1tf)
 
 	if (l1tf != VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NEVER && !vmx_l1d_flush_pages &&
 	    !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FLUSH_L1D)) {
-		/*
-		 * This allocation for vmx_l1d_flush_pages is not tied to a VM
-		 * lifetime and so should not be charged to a memcg.
-		 */
-		page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, L1D_CACHE_ORDER);
-		if (!page)
+		vmx_l1d_flush_pages = alloc_l1d_flush_pages();
+		if (!vmx_l1d_flush_pages)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		vmx_l1d_flush_pages = page_address(page);
-
-		/*
-		 * Initialize each page with a different pattern in
-		 * order to protect against KSM in the nested
-		 * virtualization case.
-		 */
-		for (i = 0; i < 1u << L1D_CACHE_ORDER; ++i) {
-			memset(vmx_l1d_flush_pages + i * PAGE_SIZE, i + 1,
-			       PAGE_SIZE);
-		}
 	}
 
 	l1tf_vmx_mitigation = l1tf;
@@ -7999,7 +7980,7 @@ static struct kvm_x86_ops vmx_x86_ops __ro_after_init = {
 static void vmx_cleanup_l1d_flush(void)
 {
 	if (vmx_l1d_flush_pages) {
-		free_pages((unsigned long)vmx_l1d_flush_pages, L1D_CACHE_ORDER);
+		cleanup_l1d_flush_pages(vmx_l1d_flush_pages);
 		vmx_l1d_flush_pages = NULL;
 	}
 	/* Restore state so sysfs ignores VMX */
-- 
2.17.1