Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86/mmu: Drop a redundant, broken remote TLB flush

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Fri Oct 22 2021 - 11:39:41 EST


On Thu, 2021-10-21 at 18:00 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> A recent commit to fix the calls to kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address()
> in kvm_zap_gfn_range() inadvertantly added yet another flush instead of
> fixing the existing flush. Drop the redundant flush, and fix the params
> for the existing flush.
>
> Fixes: 2822da446640 ("KVM: x86/mmu: fix parameters to kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address")
> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index c6ddb042b281..f82b192bba0b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -5709,13 +5709,11 @@ void kvm_zap_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn_start, gfn_t gfn_end)
> for (i = 0; i < KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM; i++)
> flush = kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_gfn_range(kvm, i, gfn_start,
> gfn_end, flush);
> - if (flush)
> - kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(kvm, gfn_start,
> - gfn_end - gfn_start);
> }
>
> if (flush)
> - kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(kvm, gfn_start, gfn_end);
> + kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address(kvm, gfn_start,
> + gfn_end - gfn_start);
>
> kvm_dec_notifier_count(kvm, gfn_start, gfn_end);
>
Opps, I didn't notice that the revert added back another flush. I probablyhaven't had
the revert in place when I wrote the patch that fixed parameters to
kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_with_address.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky