[PATCH V3 8/8] xen: Speed up set_phys_to_machine() by using read-only mappings

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Tue Nov 11 2014 - 00:45:11 EST


Instead of checking at each call of set_phys_to_machine() whether a
new p2m page has to be allocated due to writing an entry in a large
invalid or identity area, just map those areas read only and react
to a page fault on write by allocating the new page.

This change will make the common path with no allocation much
faster as it only requires a single write of the new mfn instead
of walking the address translation tables and checking for the
special cases.

Suggested-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/xen/p2m.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
index 7df446d..58cf04c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@

#include <asm/cache.h>
#include <asm/setup.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>

#include <asm/xen/page.h>
#include <asm/xen/hypercall.h>
@@ -313,9 +314,9 @@ static void __init xen_rebuild_p2m_list(unsigned long *p2m)
paravirt_alloc_pte(&init_mm, __pa(p2m_identity_pte) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PTE; i++) {
set_pte(p2m_missing_pte + i,
- pfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(__pa(p2m_missing)), PAGE_KERNEL));
+ pfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(__pa(p2m_missing)), PAGE_KERNEL_RO));
set_pte(p2m_identity_pte + i,
- pfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(__pa(p2m_identity)), PAGE_KERNEL));
+ pfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(__pa(p2m_identity)), PAGE_KERNEL_RO));
}

for (pfn = 0; pfn < xen_max_p2m_pfn; pfn += chunk) {
@@ -362,7 +363,7 @@ static void __init xen_rebuild_p2m_list(unsigned long *p2m)
p2m_missing : p2m_identity;
ptep = populate_extra_pte((unsigned long)(p2m + pfn));
set_pte(ptep,
- pfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(__pa(mfns)), PAGE_KERNEL));
+ pfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(__pa(mfns)), PAGE_KERNEL_RO));
continue;
}

@@ -621,6 +622,9 @@ bool __set_phys_to_machine(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long mfn)
return true;
}

+ if (likely(!__put_user(mfn, xen_p2m_addr + pfn)))
+ return true;
+
ptep = lookup_address((unsigned long)(xen_p2m_addr + pfn), &level);
BUG_ON(!ptep || level != PG_LEVEL_4K);

@@ -630,9 +634,7 @@ bool __set_phys_to_machine(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long mfn)
if (pte_pfn(*ptep) == PFN_DOWN(__pa(p2m_identity)))
return mfn == IDENTITY_FRAME(pfn);

- xen_p2m_addr[pfn] = mfn;
-
- return true;
+ return false;
}

bool set_phys_to_machine(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long mfn)
--
2.1.2

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