[PATCH v13 65/85] KVM: LoongArch: Mark "struct page" pfns dirty only in "slow" page fault path

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Fri Oct 11 05:24:07 AEDT 2024


Mark pages/folios dirty only the slow page fault path, i.e. only when
mmu_lock is held and the operation is mmu_notifier-protected, as marking a
page/folio dirty after it has been written back can make some filesystems
unhappy (backing KVM guests will such filesystem files is uncommon, and
the race is minuscule, hence the lack of complaints).

See the link below for details.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1683044162.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Bibo Mao <maobibo at loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
---
 arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c
index 28681dfb4b85..cc2a5f289b14 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/loongarch/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -608,13 +608,13 @@ static int kvm_map_page_fast(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long gpa, bool writ
 		if (kvm_pte_young(changed))
 			kvm_set_pfn_accessed(pfn);
 
-		if (kvm_pte_dirty(changed)) {
-			mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
-			kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
-		}
 		if (page)
 			put_page(page);
 	}
+
+	if (kvm_pte_dirty(changed))
+		mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
+
 	return ret;
 out:
 	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
@@ -915,12 +915,14 @@ static int kvm_map_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long gpa, bool write)
 	else
 		++kvm->stat.pages;
 	kvm_set_pte(ptep, new_pte);
-	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 
-	if (prot_bits & _PAGE_DIRTY) {
-		mark_page_dirty_in_slot(kvm, memslot, gfn);
+	if (writeable)
 		kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
-	}
+
+	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+
+	if (prot_bits & _PAGE_DIRTY)
+		mark_page_dirty_in_slot(kvm, memslot, gfn);
 
 	kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
 out:
-- 
2.47.0.rc1.288.g06298d1525-goog



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