From: Paul Durrant pdurrant@amazon.com
When processing mmu_notifier invalidations for gpc caches, pre-check for overlap with the invalidation event while holding gpc->lock for read, and only take gpc->lock for write if the cache needs to be invalidated. Doing a pre-check without taking gpc->lock for write avoids unnecessarily contending the lock for unrelated invalidations, which is very beneficial for caches that are heavily used (but rarely subjected to mmu_notifier invalidations).
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant pdurrant@amazon.com Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.uk --- Cc: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Cc: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: David Woodhouse dwmw2@infradead.org
v13: - Use Sean's preferred wording for the commit comment.
v10: - New in this version. --- virt/kvm/pfncache.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/pfncache.c b/virt/kvm/pfncache.c index 4e64d349b2f7..a60d8f906896 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/pfncache.c +++ b/virt/kvm/pfncache.c @@ -29,14 +29,30 @@ void gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long start,
spin_lock(&kvm->gpc_lock); list_for_each_entry(gpc, &kvm->gpc_list, list) { - write_lock_irq(&gpc->lock); + read_lock_irq(&gpc->lock);
/* Only a single page so no need to care about length */ if (gpc->valid && !is_error_noslot_pfn(gpc->pfn) && gpc->uhva >= start && gpc->uhva < end) { - gpc->valid = false; + read_unlock_irq(&gpc->lock); + + /* + * There is a small window here where the cache could + * be modified, and invalidation would no longer be + * necessary. Hence check again whether invalidation + * is still necessary once the write lock has been + * acquired. + */ + + write_lock_irq(&gpc->lock); + if (gpc->valid && !is_error_noslot_pfn(gpc->pfn) && + gpc->uhva >= start && gpc->uhva < end) + gpc->valid = false; + write_unlock_irq(&gpc->lock); + continue; } - write_unlock_irq(&gpc->lock); + + read_unlock_irq(&gpc->lock); } spin_unlock(&kvm->gpc_lock); }