[PATCH] KVM: MMU: Page table write flood protection

In fork() (or when we protect a page that is no longer a page table), we can
experience floods of writes to a page, which have to be emulated.  This is
expensive.

So, if we detect such a flood, zap the page so subsequent writes can proceed
natively.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/mmu.c b/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
index 8cf3688f7e70..0e44aca9eee7 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -969,8 +969,17 @@ void kvm_mmu_pre_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, int bytes)
         unsigned page_offset;
         unsigned misaligned;
         int level;
+        int flooded = 0;
 
         pgprintk("%s: gpa %llx bytes %d\n", __FUNCTION__, gpa, bytes);
+        if (gfn == vcpu->last_pt_write_gfn) {
+                ++vcpu->last_pt_write_count;
+                if (vcpu->last_pt_write_count >= 3)
+                        flooded = 1;
+        } else {
+                vcpu->last_pt_write_gfn = gfn;
+                vcpu->last_pt_write_count = 1;
+        }
         index = kvm_page_table_hashfn(gfn) % KVM_NUM_MMU_PAGES;
         bucket = &vcpu->kvm->mmu_page_hash[index];
         hlist_for_each_entry_safe(page, node, n, bucket, hash_link) {
@@ -978,11 +987,16 @@ void kvm_mmu_pre_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, int bytes)
                         continue;
                 pte_size = page->role.glevels == PT32_ROOT_LEVEL ? 4 : 8;
                 misaligned = (offset ^ (offset + bytes - 1)) & ~(pte_size - 1);
-                if (misaligned) {
+                if (misaligned || flooded) {
                         /*
                          * Misaligned accesses are too much trouble to fix
                          * up; also, they usually indicate a page is not used
                          * as a page table.
+                         *
+                         * If we're seeing too many writes to a page,
+                         * it may no longer be a page table, or we may be
+                         * forking, in which case it is better to unmap the
+                         * page.
                          */
                         pgprintk("misaligned: gpa %llx bytes %d role %x\n",
                                  gpa, bytes, page->role.word);