[PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: arm64: Mark the page dirty only if the fault is handled successfully

Yanan Wang wangyanan55 at huawei.com
Wed Dec 16 07:28:44 EST 2020


We now mark the page dirty and set the bitmap before calling fault handlers
in user_mem_abort(), and we might end up having spurious dirty pages if
update of permissions or mapping has failed.
So, mark the page dirty only if the fault is handled successfully.

Let the guest directly enter again but not return to userspace if we were
trying to recreate the same mapping or only change access permissions
with BBM, which is not permitted in the mapping path.

Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55 at huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 75814a02d189..72e516a10914 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -879,11 +879,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 	if (vma_pagesize == PAGE_SIZE && !force_pte)
 		vma_pagesize = transparent_hugepage_adjust(memslot, hva,
 							   &pfn, &fault_ipa);
-	if (writable) {
+	if (writable)
 		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W;
-		kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
-		mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
-	}
 
 	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM && !device)
 		clean_dcache_guest_page(pfn, vma_pagesize);
@@ -911,6 +908,19 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 					     memcache);
 	}
 
+	/* Mark the page dirty only if the fault is handled successfully */
+	if (writable && !ret) {
+		kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
+		mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
+	}
+
+	/* Let the guest directly enter again if we were trying to recreate the
+	 * same mapping or only change access permissions with BBM, which is not
+	 * permitted in the mapping path.
+	 */
+	if (ret == -EAGAIN)
+		ret = 0;
+
 out_unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 	kvm_set_pfn_accessed(pfn);
-- 
2.19.1




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