[PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: arm64: Mark the page dirty only if the fault is handled successfully

Yanan Wang wangyanan55 at huawei.com
Thu Jan 14 07:13:50 EST 2021


We now set the pfn dirty and mark the page dirty before calling fault
handlers in user_mem_abort(), so we might end up having spurious dirty
pages if update of permissions or mapping has failed. Let's move these
two operations after the fault handlers, and they will be done only if
the fault has been handled successfully.

When an -EAGAIN errno is returned from the map handler, we hope to the
vcpu to enter guest directly instead of exiting back to userspace, so
adjust the return value at the end of function.

Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55 at huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 7d2257cc5438..77cb2d28f2a4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -879,11 +879,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 	if (vma_pagesize == PAGE_SIZE && !force_pte)
 		vma_pagesize = transparent_hugepage_adjust(memslot, hva,
 							   &pfn, &fault_ipa);
-	if (writable) {
+	if (writable)
 		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W;
-		kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
-		mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
-	}
 
 	if (fault_status != FSC_PERM && !device)
 		clean_dcache_guest_page(pfn, vma_pagesize);
@@ -911,11 +908,17 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
 					     memcache);
 	}
 
+	/* Mark the page dirty only if the fault is handled successfully */
+	if (writable && !ret) {
+		kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
+		mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
+	}
+
 out_unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 	kvm_set_pfn_accessed(pfn);
 	kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
-	return ret;
+	return ret != -EAGAIN ? ret : 0;
 }
 
 /* Resolve the access fault by making the page young again. */
-- 
2.19.1




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