Re: [PATCH v7 05/12] KVM: Move kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot() to common code

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Thu Jul 27 2023 - 06:53:09 EST


On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 03:22:44 +0100,
Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Move kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot() to common code and drop
> "arch_" from the name. kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot() is just a
> range-based TLB invalidation where the range is defined by the memslot.
> Now that kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_range() can be called from common code we
> can just use that and drop a bunch of duplicate code from the arch
> directories.
>
> Note this adds a lockdep assertion for slots_lock being held when
> calling kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot(), which was previously only
> asserted on x86. MIPS has calls to kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot(),
> but they all hold the slots_lock, so the lockdep assertion continues to
> hold true.
>
> Also drop the CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT ifdef gating
> kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot(), since it is no longer necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 6 ------
> arch/mips/kvm/mips.c | 10 ++--------
> arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c | 6 ------
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 16 +---------------
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/kvm_host.h | 7 +++----
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
> 7 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>

[...]

> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index 804470fccac7..58213cc4b9b9 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -379,6 +379,20 @@ void kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_range(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, u64 pages)
> kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
> }
>
> +void kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot(struct kvm *kvm,
> + const struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot)
> +{
> + /*
> + * All current use cases for flushing the TLBs for a specific memslot
> + * related to dirty logging, and many do the TLB flush out of mmu_lock.

I appreciate this is a copy paste of an existing comment, but I can't
parse it. My command of the English language is notoriously
approximate, but it feels that something is missing in the first
sentence, such as a verb.

M.

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