kvm: Map PFN-type memory regions as writable (if possible)
authorKarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:18:56 +0000 (19:18 +0100)
committerRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:25:33 +0000 (18:25 +0100)
For EPT-violations that are triggered by a read, the pages are also mapped with
write permissions (if their memory region is also writable). That would avoid
getting yet another fault on the same page when a write occurs.

This optimization only happens when you have a "struct page" backing the memory
region. So also enable it for memory regions that do not have a "struct page".

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c

index b4414842b02392136a4c6625153bb6680ab4d733..8af42eab126dc6d34e330f09323ba3e9148a99ab 100644 (file)
@@ -1428,7 +1428,8 @@ static bool vma_is_valid(struct vm_area_struct *vma, bool write_fault)
 
 static int hva_to_pfn_remapped(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                               unsigned long addr, bool *async,
-                              bool write_fault, kvm_pfn_t *p_pfn)
+                              bool write_fault, bool *writable,
+                              kvm_pfn_t *p_pfn)
 {
        unsigned long pfn;
        int r;
@@ -1454,6 +1455,8 @@ static int hva_to_pfn_remapped(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
        }
 
+       if (writable)
+               *writable = true;
 
        /*
         * Get a reference here because callers of *hva_to_pfn* and
@@ -1519,7 +1522,7 @@ retry:
        if (vma == NULL)
                pfn = KVM_PFN_ERR_FAULT;
        else if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)) {
-               r = hva_to_pfn_remapped(vma, addr, async, write_fault, &pfn);
+               r = hva_to_pfn_remapped(vma, addr, async, write_fault, writable, &pfn);
                if (r == -EAGAIN)
                        goto retry;
                if (r < 0)