[PATCH 17/18] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow yielding during MMU notifier unmap/zap, if possible

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Fri Mar 26 02:19:56 GMT 2021


Let the TDP MMU yield when unmapping a range in response to a MMU
notification, if yielding is allowed by said notification.  There is no
reason to disallow yielding in this case, and in theory the range being
invalidated could be quite large.

Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
index f6a82230baa5..21bb8b68a553 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ bool kvm_tdp_mmu_unmap_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range,
 
 	for_each_tdp_mmu_root(kvm, root, range->slot->as_id)
 		flush |= zap_gfn_range(kvm, root, range->start, range->end,
-				       false, flush);
+				       range->may_block, flush);
 
 	return flush;
 }
@@ -903,6 +903,10 @@ static __always_inline bool kvm_tdp_mmu_handle_gfn(struct kvm *kvm,
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 
+	/*
+	 * Don't support rescheduling, none of the MMU notifiers that funnel
+	 * into this helper allow blocking; it'd be dead, wasteful code.
+	 */
 	for_each_tdp_mmu_root(kvm, root, range->slot->as_id) {
 		tdp_root_for_each_leaf_pte(iter, root, range->start, range->end)
 			ret |= handler(kvm, &iter, range);
-- 
2.31.0.291.g576ba9dcdaf-goog




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