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From: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@google.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
	Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>,
	Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Yulei Zhang <yulei.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/22] kvm: mmu: Support changed pte notifier in tdp MMU
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 09:53:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANgfPd_8SpHkCd=NyBKtRFWKkczx4SMxPLRon-kx9Oc6P7b=Ew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <622ffc59-d914-c718-3f2f-952f714ac63c@redhat.com>

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 8:11 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 25/09/20 23:22, Ben Gardon wrote:
> > +             *iter.sptep = 0;
> > +             handle_changed_spte(kvm, as_id, iter.gfn, iter.old_spte,
> > +                                 new_spte, iter.level);
> > +
>
> Can you explain why new_spte is passed here instead of 0?

That's just a bug. Thank you for catching it.

>
> All calls to handle_changed_spte are preceded by "*something =
> new_spte" except this one, so I'm thinking of having a change_spte
> function like
>
> static void change_spte(struct kvm *kvm, int as_id, gfn_t gfn,
>                         u64 *sptep, u64 new_spte, int level)
> {
>         u64 old_spte = *sptep;
>         *sptep = new_spte;
>
>         __handle_changed_spte(kvm, as_id, gfn, old_spte, new_spte, level);
>         handle_changed_spte_acc_track(old_spte, new_spte, level);
>         handle_changed_spte_dirty_log(kvm, as_id, gfn, old_spte, new_spte, level);
> }
>
> in addition to the previously-mentioned cleanup of always calling
> handle_changed_spte instead of special-casing calls to two of the
> three functions.  It would be a nice place to add the
> trace_kvm_mmu_set_spte tracepoint, too.

I'm not sure we can avoid special casing calls to the access tracking
and dirty logging handler functions. At least in the past that's
created bugs with things being marked dirty or accessed when they
shouldn't be. I'll revisit those assumptions. It would certainly be
nice to get rid of that complexity.

I agree that putting the SPTE assignment and handler functions in a
helper function would clean up the code. I'll do that. I got some
feedback on the RFC I sent last year which led me to open-code a lot
more, but I think this is still a good cleanup.

Re tracepoints, I was planning to just insert them all once this code
is stabilized, if that's alright.

>
> Paolo
>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-07 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-25 21:22 [PATCH 00/22] Introduce the TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 01/22] kvm: mmu: Separate making SPTEs from set_spte Ben Gardon
2020-09-30  4:55   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 23:03     ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 02/22] kvm: mmu: Introduce tdp_iter Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  0:04   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30  5:06     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-26  0:54   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30  5:08   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30  5:24   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30  6:24     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 23:20   ` Eric van Tassell
2020-09-30 23:34     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-01  0:07       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 03/22] kvm: mmu: Init / Uninit the TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  0:06   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30  5:34   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 18:36     ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-30 16:57   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 17:39     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 18:42       ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 04/22] kvm: mmu: Allocate and free TDP MMU roots Ben Gardon
2020-09-30  6:06   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30  6:26     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 15:38       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-10-12 22:59     ` Ben Gardon
2020-10-12 23:59       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 05/22] kvm: mmu: Add functions to handle changed TDP SPTEs Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  0:39   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-28 17:23     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 06/22] kvm: mmu: Make address space ID a property of memslots Ben Gardon
2020-09-30  6:10   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 23:11     ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 07/22] kvm: mmu: Support zapping SPTEs in the TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  0:14   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30  6:15   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30  6:28     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 08/22] kvm: mmu: Separate making non-leaf sptes from link_shadow_page Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 09/22] kvm: mmu: Remove disallowed_hugepage_adjust shadow_walk_iterator arg Ben Gardon
2020-09-30 16:19   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 10/22] kvm: mmu: Add TDP MMU PF handler Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  0:24   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 16:37   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 16:55     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 17:37     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-06 22:35       ` Ben Gardon
2020-10-06 22:33     ` Ben Gardon
2020-10-07 20:55       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 11/22] kvm: mmu: Factor out allocating a new tdp_mmu_page Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  0:22   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 18:53     ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 12/22] kvm: mmu: Allocate struct kvm_mmu_pages for all pages in TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 13/22] kvm: mmu: Support invalidate range MMU notifier for " Ben Gardon
2020-09-30 17:03   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 23:15     ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-30 23:24       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 23:27         ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 14/22] kvm: mmu: Add access tracking for tdp_mmu Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  0:32   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 17:48   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-10-06 23:38     ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 15/22] kvm: mmu: Support changed pte notifier in tdp MMU Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  0:33   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-28 15:11   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-07 16:53     ` Ben Gardon [this message]
2020-10-07 17:18       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-07 17:30         ` Ben Gardon
2020-10-07 17:54           ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 16/22] kvm: mmu: Add dirty logging handler for changed sptes Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  0:45   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 17/22] kvm: mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  1:04   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-08 18:27     ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-29 15:07   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 18:04   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 18:08     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 18/22] kvm: mmu: Support disabling dirty logging for the tdp MMU Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  1:09   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-07 16:30     ` Ben Gardon
2020-10-07 17:21       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-07 17:28         ` Ben Gardon
2020-10-07 17:53           ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-25 21:22 ` [PATCH 19/22] kvm: mmu: Support write protection for nesting in " Ben Gardon
2020-09-30 18:06   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 20/22] kvm: mmu: NX largepage recovery for TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  1:14   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 22:23     ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-29 18:24   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 18:15   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30 19:56     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30 22:33       ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-30 22:27     ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 21/22] kvm: mmu: Support MMIO in the " Ben Gardon
2020-09-30 18:19   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 22/22] kvm: mmu: Don't clear write flooding count for direct roots Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  1:25   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-05 22:48     ` Ben Gardon
2020-10-05 23:44       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-10-06 16:19         ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-26  1:14 ` [PATCH 00/22] Introduce the TDP MMU Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-28 17:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-29 17:40   ` Ben Gardon
2020-09-29 18:10     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-09-30  6:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-30  6:30   ` Paolo Bonzini

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