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| author |   Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com> | 2019-11-21 00:31:47 +0200 |
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| committer |   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2019-11-21 12:03:48 +0100 |
| commit | b11494bcabba7383c9db65132f6f73d64fb1407d (patch) | |
| tree | 1b8701f55b2ea52113ed9161890140be7a0d7168 /arch | |
| parent | Merge branch 'kvm-tsx-ctrl' into HEAD (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-b11494bcabba7383c9db65132f6f73d64fb1407d.tar.xz linux-dev-b11494bcabba7383c9db65132f6f73d64fb1407d.zip | |
KVM: nVMX: Do not mark vmcs02->apic_access_page as dirty when unpinning
vmcs->apic_access_page is simply a token that the hypervisor puts into
the PFN of a 4KB EPTE (or PTE if using shadow-paging) that triggers
APIC-access VMExit or APIC virtualization logic whenever a CPU running
in VMX non-root mode read/write from/to this PFN.
As every write either triggers an APIC-access VMExit or write is
performed on vmcs->virtual_apic_page, the PFN pointed to by
vmcs->apic_access_page should never actually be touched by CPU.
Therefore, there is no need to mark vmcs02->apic_access_page as dirty
after unpin it on L2->L1 emulated VMExit or when L1 exit VMX operation.
Reviewed-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c index 5fb59bed344e..783de6d83f9a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static void free_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) vmx->nested.cached_shadow_vmcs12 = NULL; /* Unpin physical memory we referred to in the vmcs02 */ if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) { - kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.apic_access_page); + kvm_release_page_clean(vmx->nested.apic_access_page); vmx->nested.apic_access_page = NULL; } kvm_vcpu_unmap(vcpu, &vmx->nested.virtual_apic_map, true); @@ -3070,7 +3070,7 @@ static bool nested_get_vmcs12_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) * to it so we can release it later. */ if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) { /* shouldn't happen */ - kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.apic_access_page); + kvm_release_page_clean(vmx->nested.apic_access_page); vmx->nested.apic_access_page = NULL; } page = kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page(vcpu, vmcs12->apic_access_addr); @@ -4267,7 +4267,7 @@ void nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 exit_reason, /* Unpin physical memory we referred to in vmcs02 */ if (vmx->nested.apic_access_page) { - kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.apic_access_page); + kvm_release_page_clean(vmx->nested.apic_access_page); vmx->nested.apic_access_page = NULL; } kvm_vcpu_unmap(vcpu, &vmx->nested.virtual_apic_map, true); |