KVM: x86/mmu: Zap invalidated roots via asynchronous worker

Use the system worker threads to zap the roots invalidated
by the TDP MMU's "fast zap" mechanism, implemented by
kvm_tdp_mmu_invalidate_all_roots().

At this point, apart from allowing some parallelism in the zapping of
roots, the workqueue is a glorified linked list: work items are added and
flushed entirely within a single kvm->slots_lock critical section.  However,
the workqueue fixes a latent issue where kvm_mmu_zap_all_invalidated_roots()
assumes that it owns a reference to all invalid roots; therefore, no
one can set the invalid bit outside kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast().  Putting the
invalidated roots on a linked list... erm, on a workqueue ensures that
tdp_mmu_zap_root_work() only puts back those extra references that
kvm_mmu_zap_all_invalidated_roots() had gifted to it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index da2f3a21e37b..3a2c855f04e3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 #include <linux/irq_work.h>
 #include <linux/irq.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 #include <linux/kvm.h>
 #include <linux/kvm_para.h>
@@ -1217,6 +1218,7 @@ struct kvm_arch {
 	 * the thread holds the MMU lock in write mode.
 	 */
 	spinlock_t tdp_mmu_pages_lock;
+	struct workqueue_struct *tdp_mmu_zap_wq;
 #endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
 
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