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From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: gleb@kernel.org
Cc: avi.kivity@gmail.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: MMU: flush tlb if the spte can be locklessly modified
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 22:01:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1394460109-3150-5-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1394460109-3150-1-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Relax the tlb flush condition since we will write-protect the spte out of mmu
lock. Note lockless write-protection only marks the writable spte to readonly
and the spte can be writable only if both SPTE_HOST_WRITEABLE and
SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE are set (that are tested by spte_is_locklessly_modifiable)

This patch is used to avoid this kind of race:

      VCPU 0                         VCPU 1
lockless wirte protection:
      set spte.w = 0
                                 lock mmu-lock

                                 write protection the spte to sync shadow page,
                                 see spte.w = 0, then without flush tlb

				 unlock mmu-lock

                                 !!! At this point, the shadow page can still be
                                     writable due to the corrupt tlb entry
     Flush all TLB

Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index b8468c8..17bb136 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -595,7 +595,8 @@ static bool mmu_spte_update(u64 *sptep, u64 new_spte)
 	 * we always atomicly update it, see the comments in
 	 * spte_has_volatile_bits().
 	 */
-	if (is_writable_pte(old_spte) && !is_writable_pte(new_spte))
+	if (spte_is_locklessly_modifiable(old_spte) &&
+	      !is_writable_pte(new_spte))
 		ret = true;
 
 	if (!shadow_accessed_mask)
-- 
1.8.1.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-10 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-10 14:01 [PATCH v4 0/5] KVM: x86: flush tlb out of mmu-lock after write protection Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-10 14:01 ` [PATCH 1/5] Revert "KVM: Simplify kvm->tlbs_dirty handling" Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-10 14:01 ` [PATCH 2/5] KVM: MMU: properly check last spte in fast_page_fault() Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-10 14:01 ` [PATCH 3/5] KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-10 14:01 ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2014-03-10 14:01 ` [PATCH 5/5] KVM: MMU: flush tlb out of mmu lock when write-protect the sptes Xiao Guangrong
2014-04-09 14:51   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-04-15 11:11     ` Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-25  3:29 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] KVM: x86: flush tlb out of mmu-lock after write protection Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-25 10:22   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-25 16:25 ` Hu Yaohui
2014-03-26  4:40   ` Hu Yaohui
2014-03-26  5:07     ` Xiao Guangrong
2014-03-26  5:30       ` Hu Yaohui
2014-03-26  4:54   ` Xiao Guangrong

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