[PATCH] KVM: riscv: Support enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks
dayss1224 at gmail.com
dayss1224 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 22:28:25 PST 2025
From: Dong Yang <dayss1224 at gmail.com>
There is already support of enabling dirty log gradually in small chunks
for x86 in commit 3c9bd4006bfc ("KVM: x86: enable dirty log gradually in
small chunks") and c862626 ("KVM: arm64: Support enabling dirty log
gradually in small chunks"). This adds support for riscv.
x86 and arm64 writes protect both huge pages and normal pages now, so
riscv protect also protects both huge pages and normal pages.
On a nested virtualization setup (RISC-V KVM running inside a QEMU VM
on an [Intel® Core™ i5-12500H] host), I did some tests with a 2G Linux
VM using different backing page sizes. The time taken for
memory_global_dirty_log_start in the L2 QEMU is listed below:
Page Size Before After Optimization
4K 4490.23ms 31.94ms
2M 48.97ms 45.46ms
1G 28.40ms 30.93ms
Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan at iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Dong Yang <dayss1224 at gmail.com>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 2 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +++
arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c | 5 ++++-
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 57061fa29e6a..3b621c3ae67c 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -8028,7 +8028,7 @@ will be initialized to 1 when created. This also improves performance because
dirty logging can be enabled gradually in small chunks on the first call
to KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG. KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET depends on
KVM_DIRTY_LOG_MANUAL_PROTECT_ENABLE (it is also only available on
-x86 and arm64 for now).
+x86, arm64 and riscv for now).
KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2 was previously available under the name
KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT, but the implementation had bugs that make
diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 4d794573e3db..848b63f87001 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@
BIT(IRQ_VS_TIMER) | \
BIT(IRQ_VS_EXT))
+#define KVM_DIRTY_LOG_MANUAL_CAPS (KVM_DIRTY_LOG_MANUAL_PROTECT_ENABLE | \
+ KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET)
+
struct kvm_vm_stat {
struct kvm_vm_stat_generic generic;
};
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
index 525fb5a330c0..a194eee256d8 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -161,8 +161,11 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
* allocated dirty_bitmap[], dirty pages will be tracked while
* the memory slot is write protected.
*/
- if (change != KVM_MR_DELETE && new->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES)
+ if (change != KVM_MR_DELETE && new->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES) {
+ if (kvm_dirty_log_manual_protect_and_init_set(kvm))
+ return;
mmu_wp_memory_region(kvm, new->id);
+ }
}
int kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
--
2.34.1
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