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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>,
	Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
	Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 03/28] kvm: mmu: Zero page cache memory at allocation time
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:32:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191127183248.GC22227@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190926231824.149014-4-bgardon@google.com>

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:17:59PM -0700, Ben Gardon wrote:
> Simplify use of the MMU page cache by allocating pages pre-zeroed. This
> ensures that future code does not accidentally add non-zeroed memory to
> the paging structure and moves the work of zeroing page page out from
> under the MMU lock.

Ha, this *just* came up in a different series[*].  Unless there is a hard
dependency on the rest of this series, it'd be nice to tackle this
separately so that we can fully understand the tradeoffs.  And it could be
merged early/independently as well.

[*] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11228487/#23025353

> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 7e5ab9c6e2b09..1ecd6d51c0ee0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -1037,7 +1037,7 @@ static int mmu_topup_memory_cache_page(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
>  	if (cache->nobjs >= min)
>  		return 0;
>  	while (cache->nobjs < ARRAY_SIZE(cache->objects)) {
> -		page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
> +		page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO);
>  		if (!page)
>  			return cache->nobjs >= min ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
>  		cache->objects[cache->nobjs++] = page;
> @@ -2548,7 +2548,6 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  		if (level > PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL && need_sync)
>  			flush |= kvm_sync_pages(vcpu, gfn, &invalid_list);
>  	}
> -	clear_page(sp->spt);
>  	trace_kvm_mmu_get_page(sp, true);
>  
>  	kvm_mmu_flush_or_zap(vcpu, &invalid_list, false, flush);
> -- 
> 2.23.0.444.g18eeb5a265-goog
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-27 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-26 23:17 [RFC PATCH 00/28] kvm: mmu: Rework the x86 TDP direct mapped case Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:17 ` [RFC PATCH 01/28] kvm: mmu: Separate generating and setting mmio ptes Ben Gardon
2019-11-27 18:15   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-26 23:17 ` [RFC PATCH 02/28] kvm: mmu: Separate pte generation from set_spte Ben Gardon
2019-11-27 18:25   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-26 23:17 ` [RFC PATCH 03/28] kvm: mmu: Zero page cache memory at allocation time Ben Gardon
2019-11-27 18:32   ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 04/28] kvm: mmu: Update the lpages stat atomically Ben Gardon
2019-11-27 18:39   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-06 20:10     ` Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 05/28] sched: Add cond_resched_rwlock Ben Gardon
2019-11-27 18:42   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-06 20:12     ` Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 06/28] kvm: mmu: Replace mmu_lock with a read/write lock Ben Gardon
2019-11-27 18:47   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-02 22:45     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 07/28] kvm: mmu: Add functions for handling changed PTEs Ben Gardon
2019-11-27 19:04   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 08/28] kvm: mmu: Init / Uninit the direct MMU Ben Gardon
2019-12-02 23:40   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-06 20:25     ` Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 09/28] kvm: mmu: Free direct MMU page table memory in an RCU callback Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 10/28] kvm: mmu: Flush TLBs before freeing direct MMU page table memory Ben Gardon
2019-12-02 23:46   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-06 20:31     ` Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 11/28] kvm: mmu: Optimize for freeing direct MMU PTs on teardown Ben Gardon
2019-12-02 23:54   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 12/28] kvm: mmu: Set tlbs_dirty atomically Ben Gardon
2019-12-03  0:13   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 13/28] kvm: mmu: Add an iterator for concurrent paging structure walks Ben Gardon
2019-12-03  2:15   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-18 18:25     ` Ben Gardon
2019-12-18 19:14       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 14/28] kvm: mmu: Batch updates to the direct mmu disconnected list Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 15/28] kvm: mmu: Support invalidate_zap_all_pages Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 16/28] kvm: mmu: Add direct MMU page fault handler Ben Gardon
2020-01-08 17:20   ` Peter Xu
2020-01-08 18:15     ` Ben Gardon
2020-01-08 19:00       ` Peter Xu
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 17/28] kvm: mmu: Add direct MMU fast " Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 18/28] kvm: mmu: Add an hva range iterator for memslot GFNs Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 19/28] kvm: mmu: Make address space ID a property of memslots Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 20/28] kvm: mmu: Implement the invalidation MMU notifiers for the direct MMU Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 21/28] kvm: mmu: Integrate the direct mmu with the changed pte notifier Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 22/28] kvm: mmu: Implement access tracking for the direct MMU Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 23/28] kvm: mmu: Make mark_page_dirty_in_slot usable from outside kvm_main Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 24/28] kvm: mmu: Support dirty logging in the direct MMU Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 25/28] kvm: mmu: Support kvm_zap_gfn_range " Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 26/28] kvm: mmu: Integrate direct MMU with nesting Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 27/28] kvm: mmu: Lazily allocate rmap when direct MMU is enabled Ben Gardon
2019-09-26 23:18 ` [RFC PATCH 28/28] kvm: mmu: Support MMIO in the direct MMU Ben Gardon
2019-10-17 18:50 ` [RFC PATCH 00/28] kvm: mmu: Rework the x86 TDP direct mapped case Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 13:42   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-27 19:09 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-06 19:55   ` Ben Gardon
2019-12-06 19:57     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-06 20:42       ` Ben Gardon

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