On 17/01/2018 19:18, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]>
> Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <[email protected]>
> 
> ---
> v2:
> - Move setting writable to hva_to_pfn_remapped
> - Extend hva_to_pfn_remapped interface to accept writable as a parameter

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>

> ---
>  virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 97da45e..88702d5 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -1438,7 +1438,8 @@ 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;
> @@ -1464,6 +1465,8 @@ 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
> @@ -1529,7 +1532,7 @@ static kvm_pfn_t hva_to_pfn(unsigned long addr, bool 
> atomic, bool *async,
>       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)
> 

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