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KVM: x86/mmu: Add module param to force TLB flush on root reuse 

Add a module param, flush_on_reuse, to override skip_tlb_flush and
skip_mmu_sync when performing a so called "fast cr3 switch", i.e. when
reusing a cached root.  The primary motiviation for the control is to
provide a fallback mechanism in the event that TLB flushing and/or MMU
sync bugs are exposed/introduced by upcoming changes to stop
unconditionally flushing on nested VMX transitions.

Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Suggested-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20200320212833.3507-33-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson 2020-03-20 14:28:28 -07:00 committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 4a632ac6ca
commit 71fe70130d
1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ module_param_cb(nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio, &nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio_ops,
&nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio, 0644);
__MODULE_PARM_TYPE(nx_huge_pages_recovery_ratio, "uint");
static bool __read_mostly force_flush_and_sync_on_reuse;
module_param_named(flush_on_reuse, force_flush_and_sync_on_reuse, bool, 0644);
/*
* When setting this variable to true it enables Two-Dimensional-Paging
* where the hardware walks 2 page tables:
@ -4318,9 +4321,9 @@ static void __kvm_mmu_new_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t new_cr3,
*/
kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_LOAD_MMU_PGD, vcpu);
if (!skip_mmu_sync)
if (!skip_mmu_sync || force_flush_and_sync_on_reuse)
kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_MMU_SYNC, vcpu);
if (!skip_tlb_flush)
if (!skip_tlb_flush || force_flush_and_sync_on_reuse)
kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH_CURRENT, vcpu);
/*