[PATCH v4 4/6] KVM: arm64: Flush only the memslot after write-protect

Raghavendra Rao Ananta rananta at google.com
Thu May 18 17:52:29 PDT 2023


After write-protecting the region, currently KVM invalidates
the entire TLB entries using kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(). Instead,
scope the invalidation only to the targeted memslot. If
supported, the architecture would use the range-based TLBI
instructions to flush the memslot or else fallback to flushing
all of the TLBs.

Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index e3673b4c10292..2ea6eb4ea763e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -996,7 +996,7 @@ static void kvm_mmu_wp_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, int slot)
 	write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 	stage2_wp_range(&kvm->arch.mmu, start, end);
 	write_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
-	kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
+	kvm_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot(kvm, memslot);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
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