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authorIzik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>2009-09-23 21:47:16 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2009-10-04 17:04:48 +0200
commitacb66dd051d0834c8b36d147ff83a8d39da0fe0b (patch)
tree20c5fb817e34ddca6dd4ec20ce70613eba5b10d1
parent6a54435560efdab1a08f429a954df4d6c740bddf (diff)
downloadlinux-acb66dd051d0834c8b36d147ff83a8d39da0fe0b.tar.bz2
KVM: MMU: dont hold pagecount reference for mapped sptes pages
When using mmu notifiers, we are allowed to remove the page count reference tooken by get_user_pages to a specific page that is mapped inside the shadow page tables. This is needed so we can balance the pagecount against mapcount checking. (Right now kvm increase the pagecount and does not increase the mapcount when mapping page into shadow page table entry, so when comparing pagecount against mapcount, you have no reliable result.) Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index eca41ae9f453..6c67b230e958 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -634,9 +634,7 @@ static void rmap_remove(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *spte)
if (*spte & shadow_accessed_mask)
kvm_set_pfn_accessed(pfn);
if (is_writeble_pte(*spte))
- kvm_release_pfn_dirty(pfn);
- else
- kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
+ kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
rmapp = gfn_to_rmap(kvm, sp->gfns[spte - sp->spt], sp->role.level);
if (!*rmapp) {
printk(KERN_ERR "rmap_remove: %p %llx 0->BUG\n", spte, *spte);
@@ -1877,8 +1875,7 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *sptep,
page_header_update_slot(vcpu->kvm, sptep, gfn);
if (!was_rmapped) {
rmap_count = rmap_add(vcpu, sptep, gfn);
- if (!is_rmap_spte(*sptep))
- kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
+ kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
if (rmap_count > RMAP_RECYCLE_THRESHOLD)
rmap_recycle(vcpu, sptep, gfn);
} else {