[PATCH v1 3/3] KVM: arm64: Using rcu_read_lock() for kvm_pgtable_stage2_mkyoung()
Chun-Tse Shao
ctshao at google.com
Thu Jun 8 15:05:41 PDT 2023
Access bit is RCU safe and can be set without taking kvm->mmu_lock().
Replacing existing kvm->mmu_lock() with rcu_read_lock() for better
performance.
Original disussion can be found in:
https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/CAOUHufZrfnfcbrqSzmHkejR5MA2gmGKZ3LMRhbLHV+1427z=Tw@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao at google.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 3b9d4d24c361..0f7ea66fb894 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1437,10 +1437,10 @@ static void handle_access_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa)
trace_kvm_access_fault(fault_ipa);
- read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
mmu = vcpu->arch.hw_mmu;
pte = kvm_pgtable_stage2_mkyoung(mmu->pgt, fault_ipa);
- read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
if (kvm_pte_valid(pte))
kvm_set_pfn_accessed(kvm_pte_to_pfn(pte));
--
2.41.0.162.gfafddb0af9-goog
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