x86 captures a subset of the memslot generation (19 bits) in its MMIO
sptes so that it can expedite emulated MMIO handling by checking only
the releveant spte, i.e. doesn't need to do a full page fault walk.
Because the MMIO sptes capture only 19 bits (due to limited space in
the sptes), there is a non-zero probability that the MMIO generation
could wrap, e.g. after 500k memslot updates. Since normal usage is
extremely unlikely to result in 500k memslot updates, a hack was added
by commit 69c9ea93ea ("KVM: MMU: init kvm generation close to mmio
wrap-around value") to offset the MMIO generation in order to trigger
a wraparound, e.g. after 150 memslot updates.
When separate memslot generation sequences were assigned to each
address space, commit 00f034a12f ("KVM: do not bias the generation
number in kvm_current_mmio_generation") moved the offset logic into the
initialization of the memslot generation itself so that the per-address
space bit(s) were not dropped/corrupted by the MMIO shenanigans.
Remove the offset hack for three reasons:
- While it does exercise x86's kvm_mmu_invalidate_mmio_sptes(), simply
wrapping the generation doesn't actually test the interesting case
of having stale MMIO sptes with the new generation number, e.g. old
sptes with a generation number of 0.
- Triggering kvm_mmu_invalidate_mmio_sptes() prematurely makes its
performance rather important since the probability of invalidating
MMIO sptes jumps from "effectively never" to "fairly likely". This
limits what can be done in future patches, e.g. to simplify the
invalidation code, as doing so without proper caution could lead to
a noticeable performance regression.
- Forcing the memslots generation, which is a 64-bit number, to wrap
prevents KVM from assuming the memslots generation will never wrap.
This in turn prevents KVM from using an arbitrary bit for the
"update in-progress" flag, e.g. using bit 63 would immediately
collide with using a large value as the starting generation number.
The "update in-progress" flag is effectively forced into bit 0 so
that it's (subtly) taken into account when incrementing the
generation.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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