From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.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 v2 22/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Mark SPTEs in disconnected pages as removed
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 12:17:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb7108c7-e4f2-ea59-24f4-7c7da45054a8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210202185734.1680553-23-bgardon@google.com>
On 02/02/21 19:57, Ben Gardon wrote:
>
> + * Marking the SPTE as a removed SPTE is not
> + * strictly necessary here as the MMU lock should
"should" is a bit too weak---the point of !shared is that the MMU lock
*will* stop other threads from concurrent modifications of the SPTEs.
Paolo
> + * stop other threads from concurrentrly modifying
> + * this SPTE. Using the removed SPTE value keeps
> + * the shared and non-atomic cases consistent and
> + * simplifies the function.
> + */
> + WRITE_ONCE(*sptep, REMOVED_SPTE);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-03 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-02 18:57 [PATCH v2 00/28] Allow parallel MMU operations with TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 01/28] KVM: x86/mmu: change TDP MMU yield function returns to match cond_resched Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 02/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Add comment on __tdp_mmu_set_spte Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 03/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Add lockdep when setting a TDP MMU SPTE Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 04/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Don't redundantly clear TDP MMU pt memory Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 05/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor out handling of removed page tables Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 06/28] locking/rwlocks: Add contention detection for rwlocks Ben Gardon
2021-02-09 20:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-09 21:46 ` Waiman Long
2021-02-09 22:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-10 0:27 ` Waiman Long
2021-02-10 0:41 ` Waiman Long
2021-02-10 6:04 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-02-10 14:57 ` Waiman Long
2021-02-10 3:32 ` Waiman Long
2021-02-10 15:15 ` Waiman Long
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 07/28] sched: Add needbreak " Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 08/28] sched: Add cond_resched_rwlock Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 09/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix braces in kvm_recover_nx_lpages Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 10/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix TDP MMU zap collapsible SPTEs Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 9:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 11/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Merge flush and non-flush tdp_mmu_iter_cond_resched Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 12/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename goal_gfn to next_last_level_gfn Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 13/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure forward progress when yielding in TDP MMU iter Ben Gardon
2021-02-05 23:42 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 14/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Yield in TDU MMU iter even if no SPTES changed Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 15/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Skip no-op changes in TDP MMU functions Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 16/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Clear dirtied pages mask bit before early break Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 17/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Protect TDP MMU page table memory with RCU Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 18/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Use an rwlock for the x86 MMU Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 19/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor out functions to add/remove TDP MMU pages Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 20/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Use atomic ops to set SPTEs in TDP MMU map Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 2:48 ` kernel test robot
2021-02-03 11:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-06 0:26 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-02-08 10:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-01 10:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-01 16:50 ` Ben Gardon
2021-04-01 17:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-01 18:09 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 21/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Flush TLBs after zap in TDP MMU PF handler Ben Gardon
2021-02-06 0:29 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 22/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Mark SPTEs in disconnected pages as removed Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 11:17 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 23/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow parallel page faults for the TDP MMU Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 12:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-03 17:46 ` Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 18:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-06 0:12 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 24/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow zap gfn range to operate under the mmu read lock Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 11:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-03 11:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-03 18:31 ` Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 18:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 25/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow zapping collapsible SPTEs to use MMU " Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 11:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-03 18:51 ` Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 26/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow enabling / disabling dirty logging under " Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 11:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 27/28] KVM: selftests: Add backing src parameter to dirty_log_perf_test Ben Gardon
2021-02-02 18:57 ` [PATCH v2 28/28] KVM: selftests: Disable dirty logging with vCPUs running Ben Gardon
2021-02-03 10:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-03 11:00 ` [PATCH v2 00/28] Allow parallel MMU operations with TDP MMU Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-03 17:54 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-02-03 18:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
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