Re: [PATCH v2 12/27] KVM: x86/mmu: Don't bounce through page-track mechanism for guest PTEs

[Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>]

Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:22:43PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Don't use the generic page-track mechanism to handle writes to guest PTEs
> in KVM's MMU.  KVM's MMU needs access to information that should not be
> exposed to external page-track users, e.g. KVM needs (for some definitions
> of "need") the vCPU to query the current paging mode, whereas external
> users, i.e. KVMGT, have no ties to the current vCPU and so should never
> need the vCPU.
> 
> Moving away from the page-track mechanism will allow dropping use of the
> page-track mechanism for KVM's own MMU, and will also allow simplifying
> and cleaning up the page-track APIs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  1 -
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h              |  2 ++
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c          | 13 ++-----------
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c   |  2 ++
>  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 17281d6825c9..1a4225237564 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -1265,7 +1265,6 @@ struct kvm_arch {
>  	 * create an NX huge page (without hanging the guest).
>  	 */
>  	struct list_head possible_nx_huge_pages;
> -	struct kvm_page_track_notifier_node mmu_sp_tracker;
>  	struct kvm_page_track_notifier_head track_notifier_head;
>  	/*
>  	 * Protects marking pages unsync during page faults, as TDP MMU page
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> index 168c46fd8dd1..b8bde42f6037 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> @@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ void kvm_mmu_unload(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>  void kvm_mmu_free_obsolete_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>  void kvm_mmu_sync_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
>  void kvm_mmu_sync_prev_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
> +void kvm_mmu_track_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, const u8 *new,
> +			 int bytes);
>  
>  static inline int kvm_mmu_reload(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index 409dabec69df..4f2f83d8322e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -5603,9 +5603,8 @@ static u64 *get_written_sptes(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, gpa_t gpa, int *nspte)
>  	return spte;
>  }
>  
> -static void kvm_mmu_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
> -			      const u8 *new, int bytes,
> -			      struct kvm_page_track_notifier_node *node)
> +void kvm_mmu_track_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, const u8 *new,
> +			 int bytes)
>  {
>  	gfn_t gfn = gpa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
> @@ -6088,7 +6087,6 @@ static bool kvm_has_zapped_obsolete_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
>  
>  int kvm_mmu_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
> -	struct kvm_page_track_notifier_node *node = &kvm->arch.mmu_sp_tracker;
>  	int r;
>  
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages);
> @@ -6102,9 +6100,6 @@ int kvm_mmu_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
>  			return r;
>  	}
>  
> -	node->track_write = kvm_mmu_pte_write;
> -	kvm_page_track_register_notifier(kvm, node);
> -
>  	kvm->arch.split_page_header_cache.kmem_cache = mmu_page_header_cache;
>  	kvm->arch.split_page_header_cache.gfp_zero = __GFP_ZERO;
>  
> @@ -6125,10 +6120,6 @@ static void mmu_free_vm_memory_caches(struct kvm *kvm)
>  
>  void kvm_mmu_uninit_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
> -	struct kvm_page_track_notifier_node *node = &kvm->arch.mmu_sp_tracker;
> -
> -	kvm_page_track_unregister_notifier(kvm, node);
> -
>  	if (tdp_mmu_enabled)
>  		kvm_mmu_uninit_tdp_mmu(kvm);
>  
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
> index e739dcc3375c..f39f190ad4ae 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c
> @@ -274,6 +274,8 @@ void kvm_page_track_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, const u8 *new,
>  		if (n->track_write)
>  			n->track_write(vcpu, gpa, new, bytes, n);
>  	srcu_read_unlock(&head->track_srcu, idx);
> +
> +	kvm_mmu_track_write(vcpu, gpa, new, bytes);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.40.0.rc1.284.g88254d51c5-goog
>