[PATCH v1 2/3] KVM: arm64: Only initiate walk if page_count() > 1 in free_removed_table()
Chun-Tse Shao
ctshao at google.com
Thu Jun 8 15:05:39 PDT 2023
Page table walk is unnecessary in free_removed_table() being called from
the stage-2 unmap path while PTEs on the table is empty. It can be
fast-pathed by only initiating a walk if page_count() > 1
Original disussion can be found in:
https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/ZHfWzX04GlcNngdU@linux.dev/
Suggested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao at google.com>
Suggested-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao at google.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 cc1af0286755..d8e570263388 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -1319,5 +1319,6 @@ void kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_removed(struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops *mm_ops, void *pg
.end = kvm_granule_size(level),
};
- WARN_ON(__kvm_pgtable_walk(&data, mm_ops, ptep, level + 1));
+ if (mm_ops->page_count(pgtable) > 1)
+ WARN_ON(__kvm_pgtable_walk(&data, mm_ops, ptep, level + 1));
}
--
2.41.0.162.gfafddb0af9-goog
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