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[03/15] KVM: x86: avoid unnecessarily guest page table walking

Message ID 4DEE20CA.90206@cn.fujitsu.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Xiao Guangrong June 7, 2011, 12:59 p.m. UTC
We already get the guest physical address, so use it to read guest data
directly to avoid walking guest page table again

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Avi Kivity June 9, 2011, 6:59 a.m. UTC | #1
On 06/07/2011 03:59 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> We already get the guest physical address, so use it to read guest data
> directly to avoid walking guest page table again
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong<xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>   arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    3 +--
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 694538a..8be9ff6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -3930,8 +3930,7 @@ static int emulator_read_emulated(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
>   	if ((gpa&  PAGE_MASK) == APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE)
>   		goto mmio;
>
> -	if (kvm_read_guest_virt(ctxt, addr, val, bytes, exception)
> -	    == X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
> +	if (!kvm_read_guest(vcpu->kvm, gpa, val, bytes))
>   		return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;

This breaks is addr/bytes spans a page boundary.

(the current code is also broken, but only for mmio; the new code is 
broken for ram as well).

We need a gva_to_gpa() that returns a range of pages.
Xiao Guangrong June 10, 2011, 3:51 a.m. UTC | #2
On 06/09/2011 02:59 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:

> This breaks is addr/bytes spans a page boundary.
> 
> (the current code is also broken, but only for mmio; the new code is broken for ram as well).
> 
> We need a gva_to_gpa() that returns a range of pages.
> 

Thanks for you point it out, will fix it in the next version.
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 694538a..8be9ff6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -3930,8 +3930,7 @@  static int emulator_read_emulated(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
 	if ((gpa & PAGE_MASK) == APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE)
 		goto mmio;
 
-	if (kvm_read_guest_virt(ctxt, addr, val, bytes, exception)
-	    == X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
+	if (!kvm_read_guest(vcpu->kvm, gpa, val, bytes))
 		return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;
 
 mmio: