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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2024-10-10 11:23:50 -0700
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2024-10-25 13:00:47 -0400
commit8eaa98004b23e02adb3e11120132e0e2fecc6e0e (patch)
treefcf386035a1ccd73364100c096cec61a5975da63
parentKVM: x86/mmu: Put refcounted pages instead of blindly releasing pfns (diff)
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KVM: x86/mmu: Don't mark unused faultin pages as accessed
When finishing guest page faults, don't mark pages as accessed if KVM is resuming the guest _without_ installing a mapping, i.e. if the page isn't being used. While it's possible that marking the page accessed could avoid minor thrashing due to reclaiming a page that the guest is about to access, it's far more likely that the gfn=>pfn mapping was was invalidated, e.g. due a memslot change, or because the corresponding VMA is being modified. Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20241010182427.1434605-49-seanjc@google.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index fe3f3bc0bb79..f3a4ed6afec2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -4393,7 +4393,9 @@ static void kvm_mmu_finish_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
* fault handler, and so KVM must (somewhat) speculatively mark the
* folio dirty if KVM could locklessly make the SPTE writable.
*/
- if (!fault->map_writable || r == RET_PF_RETRY)
+ if (r == RET_PF_RETRY)
+ kvm_release_page_unused(fault->refcounted_page);
+ else if (!fault->map_writable)
kvm_release_page_clean(fault->refcounted_page);
else
kvm_release_page_dirty(fault->refcounted_page);