[PATCH v2 15/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Skip no-op changes in TDP MMU functions

From: Ben Gardon
Date: Tue Feb 02 2021 - 14:04:41 EST


Skip setting SPTEs if no change is expected.

Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

v1 -> v2
- Merged no-op checks into exiting old_spte check

arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
index c8a1149cb229..aeb05f626b55 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
@@ -888,7 +888,8 @@ static bool wrprot_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *root,
continue;

if (!is_shadow_present_pte(iter.old_spte) ||
- !is_last_spte(iter.old_spte, iter.level))
+ !is_last_spte(iter.old_spte, iter.level) ||
+ !(iter.old_spte & PT_WRITABLE_MASK))
continue;

new_spte = iter.old_spte & ~PT_WRITABLE_MASK;
@@ -1065,7 +1066,8 @@ static bool set_dirty_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *root,
if (tdp_mmu_iter_cond_resched(kvm, &iter, false))
continue;

- if (!is_shadow_present_pte(iter.old_spte))
+ if (!is_shadow_present_pte(iter.old_spte) ||
+ iter.old_spte & shadow_dirty_mask)
continue;

new_spte = iter.old_spte | shadow_dirty_mask;
--
2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog