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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c index 22551e2f1d00..0f9f47b4ab0e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c @@ -129,25 +129,32 @@ static bool kvm_is_mmio_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn) } /* - * Returns true if the SPTE has bits that may be set without holding mmu_lock. - * The caller is responsible for checking if the SPTE is shadow-present, and - * for determining whether or not the caller cares about non-leaf SPTEs. + * Returns true if the SPTE needs to be updated atomically due to having bits + * that may be changed without holding mmu_lock, and for which KVM must not + * lose information. E.g. KVM must not drop Dirty bit information. The caller + * is responsible for checking if the SPTE is shadow-present, and for + * determining whether or not the caller cares about non-leaf SPTEs. */ -bool spte_has_volatile_bits(u64 spte) +bool spte_needs_atomic_update(u64 spte) { + /* SPTEs can be made Writable bit by KVM's fast page fault handler. */ if (!is_writable_pte(spte) && is_mmu_writable_spte(spte)) return true; - if (is_access_track_spte(spte)) + /* + * A/D-disabled SPTEs can be access-tracked by aging, and access-tracked + * SPTEs can be restored by KVM's fast page fault handler. + */ + if (!spte_ad_enabled(spte)) return true; - if (spte_ad_enabled(spte)) { - if (!(spte & shadow_accessed_mask) || - (is_writable_pte(spte) && !(spte & shadow_dirty_mask))) - return true; - } - - return false; + /* + * Dirty and Accessed bits can be set by the CPU. Ignore the Accessed + * bit, as KVM tolerates false negatives/positives, e.g. KVM doesn't + * invalidate TLBs when aging SPTEs, and so it's safe to clobber the + * Accessed bit (and rare in practice). + */ + return is_writable_pte(spte) && !(spte & shadow_dirty_mask); } bool make_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, |