KVM: MMU: Reinstate pte prefetch on invlpg
Commit fb341f57 removed the pte prefetch on guest invlpg, citing guest races.
However, the SDM is adamant that prefetch is allowed:
"The processor may create entries in paging-structure caches for
translations required for prefetches and for accesses that are a
result of speculative execution that would never actually occur
in the executed code path."
And, in fact, there was a race in the prefetch code: we picked up the pte
without the mmu lock held, so an older invlpg could install the pte over
a newer invlpg.
Reinstate the prefetch logic, but this time note whether another invlpg has
executed using a counter. If a race occured, do not install the pte.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index ea1b6c6..28826c8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -389,6 +389,7 @@
unsigned int n_free_mmu_pages;
unsigned int n_requested_mmu_pages;
unsigned int n_alloc_mmu_pages;
+ atomic_t invlpg_counter;
struct hlist_head mmu_page_hash[KVM_NUM_MMU_PAGES];
/*
* Hash table of struct kvm_mmu_page.