KVM: arm64: Filter out the case of only changing permissions from stage-2 map path

(1) During running time of a a VM with numbers of vCPUs, if some vCPUs
access the same GPA almost at the same time and the stage-2 mapping of
the GPA has not been built yet, as a result they will all cause
translation faults. The first vCPU builds the mapping, and the followed
ones end up updating the valid leaf PTE. Note that these vCPUs might
want different access permissions (RO, RW, RX, RWX, etc.).

(2) It's inevitable that we sometimes will update an existing valid leaf
PTE in the map path, and we perform break-before-make in this case.
Then more unnecessary translation faults could be caused if the
*break stage* of BBM is just catched by other vCPUS.

With (1) and (2), something unsatisfactory could happen: vCPU A causes
a translation fault and builds the mapping with RW permissions, vCPU B
then update the valid leaf PTE with break-before-make and permissions
are updated back to RO. Besides, *break stage* of BBM may trigger more
translation faults. Finally, some useless small loops could occur.

We can make some optimization to solve above problems: When we need to
update a valid leaf PTE in the map path, let's filter out the case where
this update only change access permissions, and don't update the valid
leaf PTE here in this case. Instead, let the vCPU enter back the guest
and it will exit next time to go through the relax_perms path without
break-before-make if it still wants more permissions.

Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210114121350.123684-3-wangyanan55@huawei.com

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
index 52ab38db04c7..8886d43cfb11 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ void kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt);
  * If device attributes are not explicitly requested in @prot, then the
  * mapping will be normal, cacheable.
  *
+ * Note that the update of a valid leaf PTE in this function will be aborted,
+ * if it's trying to recreate the exact same mapping or only change the access
+ * permissions. Instead, the vCPU will exit one more time from guest if still
+ * needed and then go through the path of relaxing permissions.
+ *
  * Note that this function will both coalesce existing table entries and split
  * existing block mappings, relying on page-faults to fault back areas outside
  * of the new mapping lazily.