Re: [PATCH 2/4] kvm: Merge "atomic" and "write" in __gfn_to_pfn_memslot()

[Peter Xu]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 02:49:47PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022, Peter Xu wrote:
> > Merge two boolean parameters into a bitmask flag called kvm_gtp_flag_t for
> > __gfn_to_pfn_memslot().  This cleans the parameter lists, and also prepare
> > for new boolean to be added to __gfn_to_pfn_memslot().
> 
> ...
> 
> > @@ -3999,8 +4000,8 @@ static int kvm_faultin_pfn(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	async = false;
> > -	fault->pfn = __gfn_to_pfn_memslot(slot, fault->gfn, false, &async,
> > -					  fault->write, &fault->map_writable,
> > +	fault->pfn = __gfn_to_pfn_memslot(slot, fault->gfn, flags,
> > +					  &async, &fault->map_writable,
> >  					  &fault->hva);
> >  	if (!async)
> >  		return RET_PF_CONTINUE; /* *pfn has correct page already */
> > @@ -4016,9 +4017,8 @@ static int kvm_faultin_pfn(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault)
> >  		}
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	fault->pfn = __gfn_to_pfn_memslot(slot, fault->gfn, false, NULL,
> > -					  fault->write, &fault->map_writable,
> > -					  &fault->hva);
> > +	fault->pfn = __gfn_to_pfn_memslot(slot, fault->gfn, flags, NULL,
> > +					  &fault->map_writable, &fault->hva);
> >  	return RET_PF_CONTINUE;
> >  }
> >  
> > diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> > index c20f2d55840c..b646b6fcaec6 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> > @@ -1146,8 +1146,15 @@ kvm_pfn_t gfn_to_pfn_prot(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, bool write_fault,
> >  		      bool *writable);
> >  kvm_pfn_t gfn_to_pfn_memslot(const struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, gfn_t gfn);
> >  kvm_pfn_t gfn_to_pfn_memslot_atomic(const struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, gfn_t gfn);
> > +
> > +/* gfn_to_pfn (gtp) flags */
> > +typedef unsigned int __bitwise kvm_gtp_flag_t;
> > +
> > +#define  KVM_GTP_WRITE          ((__force kvm_gtp_flag_t) BIT(0))
> > +#define  KVM_GTP_ATOMIC         ((__force kvm_gtp_flag_t) BIT(1))
> > +
> >  kvm_pfn_t __gfn_to_pfn_memslot(const struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, gfn_t gfn,
> > -			       bool atomic, bool *async, bool write_fault,
> > +			       kvm_gtp_flag_t gtp_flags, bool *async,
> >  			       bool *writable, hva_t *hva);
> 
> I completely agree the list of booleans is a mess, but I don't love the result of
> adding @flags.  I wonder if we can do something similar to x86's struct kvm_page_fault
> and add an internal struct to pass params.

Yep we can.  It's just that it'll be another goal irrelevant of this series
but it could be a standalone cleanup patchset for gfn->hpa conversion
paths.  Say, the new struct can also be done on top containing the new
flag, IMHO.

This reminded me of an interesting topic that Nadav used to mention that
when Matthew changed some of the Linux function parameters into a structure
then the .obj actually grows a bit due to the strong stack protector that
Linux uses.  If I'll be doing such a change I'd guess I need to dig a bit
into that first, but hopefully I don't need to for this series alone.

Sorry to be off-topic: I think it's a matter of whether you think it's okay
we merge the flags first, even if we want to go with a struct pointer
finally.

> And then add e.g. gfn_to_pfn_interruptible() to wrap that logic.

That helper sounds good, it's just that the major user I'm modifying here
doesn't really use gfn_to_pfn() at all but __gfn_to_pfn_memslot()
underneath.  I'll remember to have that when I plan to convert some
gfn_to_pfn() call sites.

> 
> I suspect we could also clean up the @async behavior at the same time, as its
> interaction with FOLL_NOWAIT is confusing.

Yeah I don't like that either.  Let me think about that when proposing a
new version.  Logically that's separate idea from this series too, but if
you think that'll be nice to have altogether then I can give it a shot.

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu