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Avi Kivity
f7d9c7b7b9 KVM: MMU: Fix race when instantiating a shadow pte
For improved concurrency, the guest walk is performed concurrently with other
vcpus.  This means that we need to revalidate the guest ptes once we have
write-protected the guest page tables, at which point they can no longer be
modified.

The current code attempts to avoid this check if the shadow page table is not
new, on the assumption that if it has existed before, the guest could not have
modified the pte without the shadow lock.  However the assumption is incorrect,
as the racing vcpu could have modified the pte, then instantiated the shadow
page, before our vcpu regains control:

  vcpu0        vcpu1

  fault
  walk pte

               modify pte
               fault in same pagetable
               instantiate shadow page

  lookup shadow page
  conclude it is old
  instantiate spte based on stale guest pte

We could do something clever with generation counters, but a test run by
Marcelo suggests this is unnecessary and we can just do the revalidation
unconditionally.  The pte will be in the processor cache and the check can
be quite fast.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04 15:19:49 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
24993d5349 KVM: make MMU_DEBUG compile again
the cr3 variable is now inside the vcpu->arch structure.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04 15:19:47 +02:00
Izik Eidus
72dc67a696 KVM: remove the usage of the mmap_sem for the protection of the memory slots.
This patch replaces the mmap_sem lock for the memory slots with a new
kvm private lock, it is needed beacuse untill now there were cases where
kvm accesses user memory while holding the mmap semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04 15:19:40 +02:00
Dong, Eddie
5882842f9b KVM: MMU: Merge shadow level check in FNAME(fetch)
Remove the redundant level check when fetching
shadow pte for present & non-present spte.

Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:21 +02:00
Avi Kivity
eb787d10af KVM: MMU: Move kvm_free_some_pages() into critical section
If some other cpu steals mmu pages between our check and an attempt to
allocate, we can run out of mmu pages.  Fix by moving the check into the
same critical section as the allocation.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:21 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
aaee2c94f7 KVM: MMU: Switch to mmu spinlock
Convert the synchronization of the shadow handling to a separate mmu_lock
spinlock.

Also guard fetch() by mmap_sem in read-mode to protect against alias
and memslot changes.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:21 +02:00
Avi Kivity
d7824fff89 KVM: MMU: Avoid calling gfn_to_page() in mmu_set_spte()
Since gfn_to_page() is a sleeping function, and we want to make the core mmu
spinlocked, we need to pass the page from the walker context (which can sleep)
to the shadow context (which cannot).

[marcelo: avoid recursive locking of mmap_sem]

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:21 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
7ec5458821 KVM: Add kvm_read_guest_atomic()
In preparation for a mmu spinlock, add kvm_read_guest_atomic()
and use it in fetch() and prefetch_page().

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:20 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
10589a4699 KVM: MMU: Concurrent guest walkers
Do not hold kvm->lock mutex across the entire pagefault code,
only acquire it in places where it is necessary, such as mmu
hash list, active list, rmap and parent pte handling.

Allow concurrent guest walkers by switching walk_addr() to use
mmap_sem in read-mode.

And get rid of the lockless __gfn_to_page.

[avi: move kvm_mmu_pte_write() locking inside the function]
[avi: add locking for real mode]
[avi: fix cmpxchg locking]

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:20 +02:00
Avi Kivity
edf884172e KVM: Move arch dependent files to new directory arch/x86/kvm/
This paves the way for multiple architecture support.  Note that while
ioapic.c could potentially be shared with ia64, it is also moved.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:18 +02:00
Renamed from drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h (Browse further)