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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2025-03-19 16:04:33 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2025-03-19 16:04:33 +0300
commit4286a3ec2595697f398ce1dc895a2f5b006dae99 (patch)
treee87fd74c521a2569e22de4b7798216aee0bf2b51 /include/linux
parente335300095c370149aada9783df2d7bf5b0db7c7 (diff)
parent0dab791f05ce2c9f0215f50cb46ed0c3126fe211 (diff)
downloadlinux-4286a3ec2595697f398ce1dc895a2f5b006dae99.tar.xz
Merge tag 'kvm-x86-mmu-6.15' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD
KVM x86/mmu changes for 6.15 Add support for "fast" aging of SPTEs in both the TDP MMU and Shadow MMU, where "fast" means "without holding mmu_lock". Not taking mmu_lock allows multiple aging actions to run in parallel, and more importantly avoids stalling vCPUs, e.g. due to holding mmu_lock for an extended duration while a vCPU is faulting in memory. For the TDP MMU, protect aging via RCU; the page tables are RCU-protected and KVM doesn't need to access any metadata to age SPTEs. For the Shadow MMU, use bit 1 of rmap pointers (bit 0 is used to terminate a list of rmaps) to implement a per-rmap single-bit spinlock. When aging a gfn, acquire the rmap's spinlock with read-only permissions, which allows hardening and optimizing the locking and aging, e.g. locking an rmap for write requires mmu_lock to also be held. The lock is NOT a true R/W spinlock, i.e. multiple concurrent readers aren't supported. To avoid forcing all SPTE updates to use atomic operations (clearing the Accessed bit out of mmu_lock makes it inherently volatile), rework and rename spte_has_volatile_bits() to spte_needs_atomic_update() and deliberately exclude the Accessed bit. KVM (and mm/) already tolerates false positives/negatives for Accessed information, and all testing has shown that reducing the latency of aging is far more beneficial to overall system performance than providing "perfect" young/old information.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index f34f4cfaa513..c28a6aa1f2ed 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ struct kvm_gfn_range {
union kvm_mmu_notifier_arg arg;
enum kvm_gfn_range_filter attr_filter;
bool may_block;
+ bool lockless;
};
bool kvm_unmap_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range);
bool kvm_age_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range);