KVM: Add memory slot versioning and use it to provide fast guest write interface

Keep track of memslots changes by keeping generation number in memslots
structure. Provide kvm_write_guest_cached() function that skips
gfn_to_hva() translation if memslots was not changed since previous
invocation.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index e56acc7857e2..e6748204cd56 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ struct kvm_irq_routing_table {};
 
 struct kvm_memslots {
         int nmemslots;
+        u64 generation;
         struct kvm_memory_slot memslots[KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS +
                                         KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS];
 };
@@ -352,12 +353,18 @@ int kvm_write_guest_page(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, const void *data,
                          int offset, int len);
 int kvm_write_guest(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, const void *data,
                     unsigned long len);
+int kvm_write_guest_cached(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
+                           void *data, unsigned long len);
+int kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
+                              gpa_t gpa);
 int kvm_clear_guest_page(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, int offset, int len);
 int kvm_clear_guest(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, unsigned long len);
 struct kvm_memory_slot *gfn_to_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);
 int kvm_is_visible_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);
 unsigned long kvm_host_page_size(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);
 void mark_page_dirty(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);
+void mark_page_dirty_in_slot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
+                             gfn_t gfn);
 
 void kvm_vcpu_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
 void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);