Re: [PATCH v2] vfio/type1: avoid redundant PageReserved checking

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:28:04 +0800
Ben Luo <luoben@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> currently, if the page is not a tail of compound page, it will be
> checked twice for the same thing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Luo <luoben@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> index 054391f..d0f7346 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
> @@ -291,11 +291,10 @@ static int vfio_lock_acct(struct vfio_dma *dma, long npage, bool async)
>  static bool is_invalid_reserved_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
>  {
>  	if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
> -		bool reserved;
>  		struct page *tail = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>  		struct page *head = compound_head(tail);
> -		reserved = !!(PageReserved(head));
>  		if (head != tail) {
> +			bool reserved = PageReserved(head);
>  			/*
>  			 * "head" is not a dangling pointer
>  			 * (compound_head takes care of that)

Thinking more about this, the code here was originally just a copy of
kvm_is_mmio_pfn() which was simplified in v3.12 with the commit below.
Should we instead do the same thing here?  Thanks,

Alex

commit 11feeb498086a3a5907b8148bdf1786a9b18fc55
Author: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 25 03:04:38 2013 +0200

    kvm: optimize away THP checks in kvm_is_mmio_pfn()
    
    The checks on PG_reserved in the page structure on head and tail pages
    aren't necessary because split_huge_page wouldn't transfer the
    PG_reserved bit from head to tail anyway.
    
    This was a forward-thinking check done in the case PageReserved was
    set by a driver-owned page mapped in userland with something like
    remap_pfn_range in a VM_PFNMAP region, but using hugepmds (not
    possible right now). It was meant to be very safe, but it's overkill
    as it's unlikely split_huge_page could ever run without the driver
    noticing and tearing down the hugepage itself.
    
    And if a driver in the future will really want to map a reserved
    hugepage in userland using an huge pmd it should simply take care of
    marking all subpages reserved too to keep KVM safe. This of course
    would require such a hypothetical driver to tear down the huge pmd
    itself and splitting the hugepage itself, instead of relaying on
    split_huge_page, but that sounds very reasonable, especially
    considering split_huge_page wouldn't currently transfer the reserved
    bit anyway.
    
    Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index d2836788561e..0fc25aed79a8 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -102,28 +102,8 @@ static bool largepages_enabled = true;
 
 bool kvm_is_mmio_pfn(pfn_t pfn)
 {
-       if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
-               int reserved;
-               struct page *tail = pfn_to_page(pfn);
-               struct page *head = compound_trans_head(tail);
-               reserved = PageReserved(head);
-               if (head != tail) {
-                       /*
-                        * "head" is not a dangling pointer
-                        * (compound_trans_head takes care of that)
-                        * but the hugepage may have been splitted
-                        * from under us (and we may not hold a
-                        * reference count on the head page so it can
-                        * be reused before we run PageReferenced), so
-                        * we've to check PageTail before returning
-                        * what we just read.
-                        */
-                       smp_rmb();
-                       if (PageTail(tail))
-                               return reserved;
-               }
-               return PageReserved(tail);
-       }
+       if (pfn_valid(pfn))
+               return PageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn));
 
        return true;
 }