Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] kvm/arm64: Remove the creation time's mapping of MMIO regions

[Keqian Zhu]

Hi Gavin,

On 2021/4/21 14:38, Gavin Shan wrote:
> Hi Keqian,
> 
> On 4/16/21 12:03 AM, Keqian Zhu wrote:
>> The MMIO regions may be unmapped for many reasons and can be remapped
>> by stage2 fault path. Map MMIO regions at creation time becomes a
>> minor optimization and makes these two mapping path hard to sync.
>>
>> Remove the mapping code while keep the useful sanity check.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Keqian Zhu <zhukeqian1@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 38 +++-----------------------------------
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> After removing the logic to create stage2 mapping for VM_PFNMAP region,
> I think the "do { } while" loop becomes unnecessary and can be dropped
> completely. It means the only sanity check is to see if the memory slot
> overflows IPA space or not. In that case, KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY can be
> ignored because the memory slot's base address and length aren't changed
> when we have KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY.
Maybe not exactly. Here we do an important sanity check that we shouldn't
log dirty for memslots with VM_PFNMAP.


> 
> It seems the patch isn't based on "next" branch because find_vma() was
> replaced by find_vma_intersection() by one of my patches :)
Yep, I remember it. I will replace it at next merge window...

Thanks,
Keqian

> 
> Thanks,
> Gavin
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> index 8711894db8c2..c59af5ca01b0 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -1301,7 +1301,6 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
>>   {
>>       hva_t hva = mem->userspace_addr;
>>       hva_t reg_end = hva + mem->memory_size;
>> -    bool writable = !(mem->flags & KVM_MEM_READONLY);
>>       int ret = 0;
>>         if (change != KVM_MR_CREATE && change != KVM_MR_MOVE &&
>> @@ -1318,8 +1317,7 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
>>       mmap_read_lock(current->mm);
>>       /*
>>        * A memory region could potentially cover multiple VMAs, and any holes
>> -     * between them, so iterate over all of them to find out if we can map
>> -     * any of them right now.
>> +     * between them, so iterate over all of them.
>>        *
>>        *     +--------------------------------------------+
>>        * +---------------+----------------+   +----------------+
>> @@ -1330,50 +1328,20 @@ int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
>>        */
>>       do {
>>           struct vm_area_struct *vma = find_vma(current->mm, hva);
>> -        hva_t vm_start, vm_end;
>>             if (!vma || vma->vm_start >= reg_end)
>>               break;
>>   -        /*
>> -         * Take the intersection of this VMA with the memory region
>> -         */
>> -        vm_start = max(hva, vma->vm_start);
>> -        vm_end = min(reg_end, vma->vm_end);
>> -
>>           if (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) {
>> -            gpa_t gpa = mem->guest_phys_addr +
>> -                    (vm_start - mem->userspace_addr);
>> -            phys_addr_t pa;
>> -
>> -            pa = (phys_addr_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
>> -            pa += vm_start - vma->vm_start;
>> -
>>               /* IO region dirty page logging not allowed */
>>               if (memslot->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES) {
>>                   ret = -EINVAL;
>> -                goto out;
>> -            }
>> -
>> -            ret = kvm_phys_addr_ioremap(kvm, gpa, pa,
>> -                            vm_end - vm_start,
>> -                            writable);
>> -            if (ret)
>>                   break;
>> +            }
>>           }
>> -        hva = vm_end;
>> +        hva = min(reg_end, vma->vm_end);
>>       } while (hva < reg_end);
>>   -    if (change == KVM_MR_FLAGS_ONLY)
>> -        goto out;
>> -
>> -    spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>> -    if (ret)
>> -        unmap_stage2_range(&kvm->arch.mmu, mem->guest_phys_addr, mem->memory_size);
>> -    else if (!cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_STAGE2_FWB))
>> -        stage2_flush_memslot(kvm, memslot);
>> -    spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>> -out:
>>       mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
>>       return ret;
>>   }
>>
> 
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