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KVM: x86: flush TLB when D bit is manually changed. 

When software changes D bit (either from 1 to 0, or 0 to 1), the
corresponding TLB entity in the hardware won't be updated immediately. We
should flush it to guarantee the consistence of D bit between TLB and
MMU page table in memory.  This is especially important when clearing
the D bit, since it may cause false negatives in reporting dirtiness.

Sanity test was done on my machine with Intel processor.

Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>
[Check A bit too. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Kai Huang 2015-01-09 16:44:30 +08:00 committed by Paolo Bonzini
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commit 7e71a59b25
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arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
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@ -532,6 +532,11 @@ static bool spte_is_bit_cleared(u64 old_spte, u64 new_spte, u64 bit_mask)
return (old_spte & bit_mask) && !(new_spte & bit_mask);
}
static bool spte_is_bit_changed(u64 old_spte, u64 new_spte, u64 bit_mask)
{
return (old_spte & bit_mask) != (new_spte & bit_mask);
}
/* Rules for using mmu_spte_set:
* Set the sptep from nonpresent to present.
* Note: the sptep being assigned *must* be either not present
@ -582,6 +587,14 @@ static bool mmu_spte_update(u64 *sptep, u64 new_spte)
if (!shadow_accessed_mask)
return ret;
/*
* Flush TLB when accessed/dirty bits are changed in the page tables,
* to guarantee consistency between TLB and page tables.
*/
if (spte_is_bit_changed(old_spte, new_spte,
shadow_accessed_mask | shadow_dirty_mask))
ret = true;
if (spte_is_bit_cleared(old_spte, new_spte, shadow_accessed_mask))
kvm_set_pfn_accessed(spte_to_pfn(old_spte));
if (spte_is_bit_cleared(old_spte, new_spte, shadow_dirty_mask))