Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] KVM: VMX: Skip additional Hyper-V TLB EPTP flushes if one fails

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Date: Wed Oct 21 2020 - 10:22:57 EST


Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Skip additional EPTP flushes if one fails when processing EPTPs for
> Hyper-V's paravirt TLB flushing. If _any_ flush fails, KVM falls back
> to a full global flush, i.e. additional flushes are unnecessary (and
> will likely fail anyways).
>
> Continue processing the loop unless a mismatch was already detected,
> e.g. to handle the case where the first flush fails and there is a
> yet-to-be-detected mismatch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> index a45a90d44d24..e0fea09a6e42 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -517,7 +517,11 @@ static int hv_remote_flush_tlb_with_range(struct kvm *kvm,
> else
> mismatch = true;
>
> - ret |= hv_remote_flush_eptp(tmp_eptp, range);
> + if (!ret)
> + ret = hv_remote_flush_eptp(tmp_eptp, range);
> +
> + if (ret && mismatch)
> + break;
> }
> if (mismatch)
> kvm_vmx->hv_tlb_eptp = INVALID_PAGE;

In case my suggestion on PATCH5 gets dismissed,

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Vitaly