Re: [RFC PATCH] KVM: arm64: Add prejudgement for relaxing permissions only case in stage2 translation fault handler

[Marc Zyngier]

Hi Yanan,

On 2020-12-14 07:20, wangyanan (Y) wrote:

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c 
> b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> index a74a62283012..e3c6133567c4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> @@ -45,6 +45,10 @@
>
>  #define KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_XN     BIT(54)
>
> +#define KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_S2_PERMS (KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_R | \
> +        KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W | \
> + KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_XN)
> +
>  struct kvm_pgtable_walk_data {
>         struct kvm_pgtable                   *pgt;
>         struct kvm_pgtable_walker       *walker;
> @@ -473,8 +477,13 @@ static bool stage2_map_walker_try_leaf(u64 addr,
> u64 end, u32 level,
>
>         new = kvm_init_valid_leaf_pte(phys, data->attr, level);
>         if (kvm_pte_valid(old)) {
> -               /* Tolerate KVM recreating the exact same mapping. */
> -               if (old == new)
> +               /*
> +                * Skip updating the PTE with break-before-make if we 
> are trying
> +                * to recreate the exact same mapping or only change 
> the access
> +                * permissions. Actually, change of permissions will be 
> handled
> +                * through the relax_perms path next time if necessary.
> +                */
> +               if (!((old ^ new) & (~KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_S2_PERMS)))
>                         goto out;
>
>                 /* There's an existing different valid leaf entry, so 
> perform

I think there is a bit more work to do on this.

One obvious issue is that we currently flag a page as dirty before 
handling
the fault. With an early exit, we end-up having spurious dirty pages.

It's not a big deal, but I'd rather mark the page dirty after the 
mapping
or the permission update having been successful (at the moment, it 
cannot
fails).

Thanks,

        M.
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