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Subject[PATCH v7 11/11] KVM: MMU: reduce KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD when root page is zapped
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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>

Quote Gleb's mail:
| why don't we check for sp->role.invalid in
| kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page before calling kvm_reload_remote_mmus()?

and

| Actually we can add check for is_obsolete_sp() there too since
| kvm_mmu_invalidate_all_pages() already calls kvm_reload_remote_mmus()
| after incrementing mmu_valid_gen.

[ Xiao: add some comments and the check of is_obsolete_sp() ]

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 8 +++++++-
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 5e34056..055d675 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2097,7 +2097,13 @@ __kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp,
kvm_mod_used_mmu_pages(kvm, -1);
} else {
list_move(&sp->link, &kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages);
- kvm_reload_remote_mmus(kvm);
+
+ /*
+ * The obsolete pages can not be used on any vcpus.
+ * See the comments in kvm_mmu_invalidate_zap_all_pages().
+ */
+ if (!sp->role.invalid && !is_obsolete_sp(kvm, sp))
+ kvm_reload_remote_mmus(kvm);
}

sp->role.invalid = 1;
--
1.7.7.6


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