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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 8481cf43e8c7..49088b8a3ee3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -198,16 +198,20 @@ void kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask(u64 mmio_mask)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask);
/*
- * spte bits of bit 3 ~ bit 11 are used as low 9 bits of generation number,
- * the bits of bits 52 ~ bit 61 are used as high 10 bits of generation
- * number.
+ * the low bit of the generation number is always presumed to be zero.
+ * This disables mmio caching during memslot updates. The concept is
+ * similar to a seqcount but instead of retrying the access we just punt
+ * and ignore the cache.
+ *
+ * spte bits 3-11 are used as bits 1-9 of the generation number,
+ * the bits 52-61 are used as bits 10-19 of the generation number.
*/
-#define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_LOW_SHIFT 3
+#define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_LOW_SHIFT 2
#define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_HIGH_SHIFT 52
-#define MMIO_GEN_SHIFT 19
-#define MMIO_GEN_LOW_SHIFT 9
-#define MMIO_GEN_LOW_MASK ((1 << MMIO_GEN_LOW_SHIFT) - 1)
+#define MMIO_GEN_SHIFT 20
+#define MMIO_GEN_LOW_SHIFT 10
+#define MMIO_GEN_LOW_MASK ((1 << MMIO_GEN_LOW_SHIFT) - 2)
#define MMIO_GEN_MASK ((1 << MMIO_GEN_SHIFT) - 1)
#define MMIO_MAX_GEN ((1 << MMIO_GEN_SHIFT) - 1)
@@ -4379,7 +4383,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_invalidate_mmio_sptes(struct kvm *kvm)
* The very rare case: if the generation-number is round,
* zap all shadow pages.
*/
- if (unlikely(kvm_current_mmio_generation(kvm) >= MMIO_MAX_GEN)) {
+ if (unlikely(kvm_current_mmio_generation(kvm) == 0)) {
printk_ratelimited(KERN_INFO "kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound\n");
kvm_mmu_invalidate_zap_all_pages(kvm);
}