(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
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