Thread (52 messages) 52 messages, 4 authors, 2020-06-17

Re: [PATCH 06/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Move fast_page_fault() call above mmu_topup_memory_caches()

From: Ben Gardon <hidden>
Date: 2020-06-09 23:04:01
Also in: kvm, kvmarm, linux-mips, lkml

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:39 PM Sean Christopherson
[off-list ref] wrote:
Avoid refilling the memory caches and potentially slow reclaim/swap when
handling a fast page fault, which does not need to allocate any new
objects.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 5e773564ab20..4b4c3234d623 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -4095,6 +4095,9 @@ static int direct_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, u32 error_code,
        if (page_fault_handle_page_track(vcpu, error_code, gfn))
                return RET_PF_EMULATE;

+       if (fast_page_fault(vcpu, gpa, error_code))
+               return RET_PF_RETRY;
+
        r = mmu_topup_memory_caches(vcpu);
        if (r)
                return r;
@@ -4102,9 +4105,6 @@ static int direct_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, u32 error_code,
        if (lpage_disallowed)
                max_level = PG_LEVEL_4K;

-       if (fast_page_fault(vcpu, gpa, error_code))
-               return RET_PF_RETRY;
-
        mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
        smp_rmb();

--
2.26.0
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