[PATCH v6 10/11] KVM: arm64: Invalidate the table entries upon a range

[Shaoqin Huang]

On 7/15/23 08:54, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:
> Currently, during the operations such as a hugepage collapse,
> KVM would flush the entire VM's context using 'vmalls12e1is'
> TLBI operation. Specifically, if the VM is faulting on many
> hugepages (say after dirty-logging), it creates a performance
> penalty for the guest whose pages have already been faulted
> earlier as they would have to refill their TLBs again.
> 
> Instead, leverage kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range() for table entries.
> If the system supports it, only the required range will be
> flushed. Else, it'll fallback to the previous mechanism.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta at google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang at redhat.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> index 5d14d5d5819a..5ef098af1736 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> @@ -806,7 +806,8 @@ static bool stage2_try_break_pte(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
>   		 * evicted pte value (if any).
>   		 */
>   		if (kvm_pte_table(ctx->old, ctx->level))
> -			kvm_call_hyp(__kvm_tlb_flush_vmid, mmu);
> +			kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_range(mmu, ctx->addr,
> +						kvm_granule_size(ctx->level));
>   		else if (kvm_pte_valid(ctx->old))
>   			kvm_call_hyp(__kvm_tlb_flush_vmid_ipa, mmu,
>   				     ctx->addr, ctx->level);

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Shaoqin