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Joerg Roedel 6539e738f6 KVM: MMU: Implement nested gva_to_gpa functions
This patch adds the functions to do a nested l2_gva to
l1_gpa page table walk.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:36 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 1e301feb07 KVM: MMU: Introduce generic walk_addr function
This is the first patch in the series towards a generic
walk_addr implementation which could walk two-dimensional
page tables in the end. In this first step the walk_addr
function is renamed into walk_addr_generic which takes a
mmu context as an additional parameter.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:33 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 8df25a328a KVM: MMU: Track page fault data in struct vcpu
This patch introduces a struct with two new fields in
vcpu_arch for x86:

	* fault.address
	* fault.error_code

This will be used to correctly propagate page faults back
into the guest when we could have either an ordinary page
fault or a nested page fault. In the case of a nested page
fault the fault-address is different from the original
address that should be walked. So we need to keep track
about the real fault-address.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:33 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 3241f22da8 KVM: MMU: Let is_rsvd_bits_set take mmu context instead of vcpu
This patch changes is_rsvd_bits_set() function prototype to
take only a kvm_mmu context instead of a full vcpu.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:32 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 5777ed340d KVM: MMU: Introduce get_cr3 function pointer
This function pointer in the MMU context is required to
implement Nested Nested Paging.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:31 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 957446afce KVM: MMU: Check for root_level instead of long mode
The walk_addr function checks for !is_long_mode in its 64
bit version. But what is meant here is a check for pae
paging. Change the condition to really check for pae paging
so that it also works with nested nested paging.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:27 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong 8b1fe17cc7 KVM: MMU: support disable/enable mmu audit dynamicly
Add a r/w module parameter named 'mmu_audit', it can control audit
enable/disable:

enable:
  echo 1 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/mmu_audit

disable:
  echo 0 > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/mmu_audit

This patch not change the logic

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:56 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong bc32ce2152 KVM: MMU: fix wrong not write protected sp report
The audit code reports some sp not write protected in current code, it's just the
bug in audit_write_protection(), since:

- the invalid sp not need write protected
- using uninitialize local variable('gfn')
- call kvm_mmu_audit() out of mmu_lock's protection

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:47 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong 189be38db3 KVM: MMU: combine guest pte read between fetch and pte prefetch
Combine guest pte read between guest pte check in the fetch path and pte prefetch

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:28 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong 957ed9effd KVM: MMU: prefetch ptes when intercepted guest #PF
Support prefetch ptes when intercept guest #PF, avoid to #PF by later
access

If we meet any failure in the prefetch path, we will exit it and
not try other ptes to avoid become heavy path

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:51:27 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong fa1de2bfc0 KVM: MMU: add missing reserved bits check in speculative path
In the speculative path, we should check guest pte's reserved bits just as
the real processor does

Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:56 +03:00
Avi Kivity 24157aaf83 KVM: MMU: Eliminate redundant temporaries in FNAME(fetch)
'level' and 'sptep' are aliases for 'interator.level' and 'iterator.sptep', no
need for them.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:48 +03:00
Avi Kivity 5991b33237 KVM: MMU: Validate all gptes during fetch, not just those used for new pages
Currently, when we fetch an spte, we only verify that gptes match those that
the walker saw if we build new shadow pages for them.

However, this misses the following race:

  vcpu1            vcpu2

  walk
                  change gpte
                  walk
                  instantiate sp

  fetch existing sp

Fix by validating every gpte, regardless of whether it is used for building
a new sp or not.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:47 +03:00
Avi Kivity 0b3c933302 KVM: MMU: Simplify spte fetch() function
Partition the function into three sections:

- fetching indirect shadow pages (host_level > guest_level)
- fetching direct shadow pages (page_level < host_level <= guest_level)
- the final spte (page_level == host_level)

Instead of the current spaghetti.

A slight change from the original code is that we call validate_direct_spte()
more often: previously we called it only for gw->level, now we also call it for
lower levels.  The change should have no effect.

[xiao: fix regression caused by validate_direct_spte() called too late]

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:45 +03:00
Avi Kivity 39c8c672a1 KVM: MMU: Add gpte_valid() helper
Move the code to check whether a gpte has changed since we fetched it into
a helper.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:44 +03:00
Avi Kivity a357bd229c KVM: MMU: Add validate_direct_spte() helper
Add a helper to verify that a direct shadow page is valid wrt the required
access permissions; drop the page if it is not valid.

Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:43 +03:00
Avi Kivity a3aa51cfaa KVM: MMU: Add drop_large_spte() helper
To clarify spte fetching code, move large spte handling into a helper.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:42 +03:00
Avi Kivity 32ef26a359 KVM: MMU: Add link_shadow_page() helper
To simplify the process of fetching an spte, add a helper that links
a shadow page to an spte.

Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:40 +03:00
Avi Kivity f59c1d2ded KVM: MMU: Keep going on permission error
Real hardware disregards permission errors when computing page fault error
code bit 0 (page present).  Do the same.

Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:30 +03:00
Avi Kivity b0eeec29fe KVM: MMU: Only indicate a fetch fault in page fault error code if nx is enabled
Bit 4 of the page fault error code is set only if EFER.NX is set.

Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:29 +03:00
Avi Kivity be38d276b0 KVM: MMU: Introduce drop_spte()
When we call rmap_remove(), we (almost) always immediately follow it by
an __set_spte() to a nonpresent pte.  Since we need to perform the two
operations atomically, to avoid losing the dirty and accessed bits, introduce
a helper drop_spte() and convert all call sites.

The operation is still nonatomic at this point.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-02 06:40:17 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong 84754cd8fc KVM: MMU: cleanup FNAME(fetch)() functions
Cleanup this function that we are already get the direct sp's access

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:47:26 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong 9e7b0e7fba KVM: MMU: fix direct sp's access corrupted
If the mapping is writable but the dirty flag is not set, we will find
the read-only direct sp and setup the mapping, then if the write #PF
occur, we will mark this mapping writable in the read-only direct sp,
now, other real read-only mapping will happily write it without #PF.

It may hurt guest's COW

Fixed by re-install the mapping when write #PF occur.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:47:25 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong 5fd5387c89 KVM: MMU: fix conflict access permissions in direct sp
In no-direct mapping, we mark sp is 'direct' when we mapping the
guest's larger page, but its access is encoded form upper page-struct
entire not include the last mapping, it will cause access conflict.

For example, have this mapping:
        [W]
      / PDE1 -> |---|
  P[W]          |   | LPA
      \ PDE2 -> |---|
        [R]

P have two children, PDE1 and PDE2, both PDE1 and PDE2 mapping the
same lage page(LPA). The P's access is WR, PDE1's access is WR,
PDE2's access is RO(just consider read-write permissions here)

When guest access PDE1, we will create a direct sp for LPA, the sp's
access is from P, is W, then we will mark the ptes is W in this sp.

Then, guest access PDE2, we will find LPA's shadow page, is the same as
PDE's, and mark the ptes is RO.

So, if guest access PDE1, the incorrect #PF is occured.

Fixed by encode the last mapping access into direct shadow page

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:47:23 +03:00
Avi Kivity a1f4d39500 KVM: Remove memory alias support
As advertised in feature-removal-schedule.txt.  Equivalent support is provided
by overlapping memory regions.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:47:00 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong be71e061d1 KVM: MMU: don't mark pte notrap if it's just sync transient
If the sync-sp just sync transient, don't mark its pte notrap

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:46:42 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong cb83cad2e7 KVM: MMU: cleanup for dirty page judgment
Using wrap function to cleanup page dirty judgment

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:46:39 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong ac3cd03cca KVM: MMU: rename 'page' and 'shadow_page' to 'sp'
Rename 'page' and 'shadow_page' to 'sp' to better fit the context

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:46:38 +03:00
Andi Kleen a24e809902 KVM: Fix unused but set warnings
No real bugs in this one.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:46:29 +03:00
Lai Jiangshan 3af1817a0d KVM: MMU: calculate correct gfn for small host pages backing large guest pages
In Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt:
  gfn:
    Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this
    page, or the base page frame for linear translations. See role.direct.

But in function FNAME(fetch)(), sp->gfn is incorrect when one of following
situations occurred:

 1) guest is 32bit paging and the guest PDE maps a 4-MByte page
    (backed by 4k host pages), FNAME(fetch)() miss handling the quadrant.

    And if guest use pse-36, "table_gfn = gpte_to_gfn(gw->ptes[level - delta]);"
    is incorrect.

 2) guest is long mode paging and the guest PDPTE maps a 1-GByte page
    (backed by 4k or 2M host pages).

So we fix it to suit to the document and suit to the code which
requires sp->gfn correct when sp->role.direct=1.

We use the goal mapping gfn(gw->gfn) to calculate the base page frame
for linear translations, it is simple and easy to be understood.

Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:39:21 +03:00
Lai Jiangshan 2032a93d66 KVM: MMU: Don't allocate gfns page for direct mmu pages
When sp->role.direct is set, sp->gfns does not contain any essential
information, leaf sptes reachable from this sp are for a continuous
guest physical memory range (a linear range).
So sp->gfns[i] (if it was set) equals to sp->gfn + i. (PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL)
Obviously, it is not essential information, we can calculate it when need.

It means we don't need sp->gfns when sp->role.direct=1,
Thus we can save one page usage for every kvm_mmu_page.

Note:
  Access to sp->gfns must be wrapped by kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn()
  or kvm_mmu_page_set_gfn().
  It is only exposed in FNAME(sync_page).

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:52 +03:00
Avi Kivity 221d059d15 KVM: Update Red Hat copyrights
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:51 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong f78978aa3a KVM: MMU: only update unsync page in invlpg path
Only unsync pages need updated at invlpg time since other shadow
pages are write-protected

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:50 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong f55c3f419a KVM: MMU: unalias gfn before sp->gfns[] comparison in sync_page
sp->gfns[] contain unaliased gfns, but gpte might contain pointer
to aliased region.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:46 +03:00
Gui Jianfeng 518c5a05e8 KVM: MMU: Fix debug output error in walk_addr()
Fix a debug output error in walk_addr

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:39 +03:00
Gui Jianfeng f3b8c964a9 KVM: MMU: mark page table dirty when a pte is actually modified
Sometime cmpxchg_gpte doesn't modify gpte, in such case, don't mark
page table page as dirty.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:38 +03:00
Huang Ying bf998156d2 KVM: Avoid killing userspace through guest SRAO MCE on unmapped pages
In common cases, guest SRAO MCE will cause corresponding poisoned page
be un-mapped and SIGBUS be sent to QEMU-KVM, then QEMU-KVM will relay
the MCE to guest OS.

But it is reported that if the poisoned page is accessed in guest
after unmapping and before MCE is relayed to guest OS, userspace will
be killed.

The reason is as follows. Because poisoned page has been un-mapped,
guest access will cause guest exit and kvm_mmu_page_fault will be
called. kvm_mmu_page_fault can not get the poisoned page for fault
address, so kernel and user space MMIO processing is tried in turn. In
user MMIO processing, poisoned page is accessed again, then userspace
is killed by force_sig_info.

To fix the bug, kvm_mmu_page_fault send HWPOISON signal to QEMU-KVM
and do not try kernel and user space MMIO processing for poisoned
page.

[xiao: fix warning introduced by avi]

Reported-by: Max Asbock <masbock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-08-01 10:35:26 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong 6aa0b9dec5 KVM: MMU: fix conflict access permissions in direct sp
In no-direct mapping, we mark sp is 'direct' when we mapping the
guest's larger page, but its access is encoded form upper page-struct
entire not include the last mapping, it will cause access conflict.

For example, have this mapping:
        [W]
      / PDE1 -> |---|
  P[W]          |   | LPA
      \ PDE2 -> |---|
        [R]

P have two children, PDE1 and PDE2, both PDE1 and PDE2 mapping the
same lage page(LPA). The P's access is WR, PDE1's access is WR,
PDE2's access is RO(just consider read-write permissions here)

When guest access PDE1, we will create a direct sp for LPA, the sp's
access is from P, is W, then we will mark the ptes is W in this sp.

Then, guest access PDE2, we will find LPA's shadow page, is the same as
PDE's, and mark the ptes is RO.

So, if guest access PDE1, the incorrect #PF is occured.

Fixed by encode the last mapping access into direct shadow page

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-07-23 09:07:04 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong 884a0ff0b6 KVM: MMU: cleanup invlpg code
Using is_last_spte() to cleanup invlpg code

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-05-19 11:36:28 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong 22c9b2d166 KVM: MMU: fix for calculating gpa in invlpg code
If the guest is 32-bit, we should use 'quadrant' to adjust gpa
offset

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-05-19 11:36:25 +03:00
Gui Jianfeng 814a59d207 KVM: MMU: Make use of is_large_pte() in walker
Make use of is_large_pte() instead of checking PT_PAGE_SIZE_MASK
bit directly.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-17 12:18:07 +03:00
Gui Jianfeng 51fb60d81b KVM: MMU: Move sync_page() first pte address calculation out of loop
Move first pte address calculation out of loop to save some cycles.

Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-05-17 12:18:06 +03:00
Xiao Guangrong 24222c2fec KVM: MMU: remove unnecessary NX check in walk_addr
After is_rsvd_bits_set() checks, EFER.NXE must be enabled if NX bit is seted

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-05-17 12:17:30 +03:00
Avi Kivity 08e850c653 KVM: MMU: Reinstate pte prefetch on invlpg
Commit fb341f57 removed the pte prefetch on guest invlpg, citing guest races.
However, the SDM is adamant that prefetch is allowed:

  "The processor may create entries in paging-structure caches for
   translations required for prefetches and for accesses that are a
   result of speculative execution that would never actually occur
   in the executed code path."

And, in fact, there was a race in the prefetch code: we picked up the pte
without the mmu lock held, so an older invlpg could install the pte over
a newer invlpg.

Reinstate the prefetch logic, but this time note whether another invlpg has
executed using a counter.  If a race occured, do not install the pte.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-05-17 12:15:43 +03:00
Avi Kivity fbc5d139bb KVM: MMU: Do not instantiate nontrapping spte on unsync page
The update_pte() path currently uses a nontrapping spte when a nonpresent
(or nonaccessed) gpte is written.  This is fine since at present it is only
used on sync pages.  However, on an unsync page this will cause an endless
fault loop as the guest is under no obligation to invlpg a gpte that
transitions from nonpresent to present.

Needed for the next patch which reinstates update_pte() on invlpg.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-05-17 12:15:42 +03:00
Gleb Natapov 1871c6020d KVM: x86 emulator: fix memory access during x86 emulation
Currently when x86 emulator needs to access memory, page walk is done with
broadest permission possible, so if emulated instruction was executed
by userspace process it can still access kernel memory. Fix that by
providing correct memory access to page walker during emulation.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:11 -03:00
Takuya Yoshikawa 8dae444529 KVM: rename is_writeble_pte() to is_writable_pte()
There are two spellings of "writable" in
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c and paging_tmpl.h .

This patch renames is_writeble_pte() to is_writable_pte()
and makes grepping easy.

  New name is consistent with the definition of itself:
  return pte & PT_WRITABLE_MASK;

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:36:00 -03:00
Marcelo Tosatti a6085fbaf6 KVM: MMU: bail out pagewalk on kvm_read_guest error
Exit the guest pagetable walk loop if reading gpte failed. Otherwise its
possible to enter an endless loop processing the previous present pte.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-01-25 12:26:38 -02:00
Marcelo Tosatti fb341f572d KVM: MMU: remove prefault from invlpg handler
The invlpg prefault optimization breaks Windows 2008 R2 occasionally.

The visible effect is that the invlpg handler instantiates a pte which
is, microseconds later, written with a different gfn by another vcpu.

The OS could have other mechanisms to prevent a present translation from
being used, which the hypervisor is unaware of.

While the documentation states that the cpu is at liberty to prefetch tlb
entries, it looks like this is not heeded, so remove tlb prefetch from
invlpg.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-27 13:36:30 -02:00
Marcelo Tosatti 5f5c35aad5 KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
Large page translations are always synchronized (either in level 3
or level 2), so its not necessary to properly deal with them
in the invlpg handler.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-12-03 09:32:23 +02:00