[07/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Document that zapping invalidated roots doesn't need to flush

Commit Message

Sean Christopherson Nov. 20, 2021, 4:50 a.m. UTC

Remove the misleading flush "handling" when zapping invalidated TDP MMU
roots, and document that flushing is unnecessary for all flavors of MMUs
when zapping invalid/obsolete roots/pages.  The "handling" in the TDP MMU
is dead code, as zap_gfn_range() is called with shared=true, in which
case it will never return true due to the flushing being handled by
tdp_mmu_zap_spte_atomic().

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[e-mail]>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c     | 10 +++++++---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 3adac2630c4c..e00e46205730 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -5642,9 +5642,13 @@  static void kvm_zap_obsolete_pages(struct kvm *kvm)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Trigger a remote TLB flush before freeing the page tables to ensure
-	 * KVM is not in the middle of a lockless shadow page table walk, which
-	 * may reference the pages.
+	 * Kick all vCPUs (via remote TLB flush) before freeing the page tables
+	 * to ensure KVM is not in the middle of a lockless shadow page table
+	 * walk, which may reference the pages.  The remote TLB flush itself is
+	 * not required and is simply a convenient way to kick vCPUs as needed.
+	 * KVM performs a local TLB flush when allocating a new root (see
+	 * kvm_mmu_load()), and the reload in the caller ensure no vCPUs are
+	 * running with an obsolete MMU.
 	 */
 	kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(kvm, &kvm->arch.zapped_obsolete_pages);
 }
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
index 981fb0517384..4305ee8e3de3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
@@ -833,7 +833,6 @@  void kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_invalidated_roots(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
 	struct kvm_mmu_page *next_root;
 	struct kvm_mmu_page *root;
-	bool flush = false;
 
 	lockdep_assert_held_read(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 
@@ -846,7 +845,16 @@  void kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_invalidated_roots(struct kvm *kvm)
 
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 
-		flush = zap_gfn_range(kvm, root, 0, -1ull, true, flush, true);
+		/*
+		 * A TLB flush is unnecessary, invalidated roots are guaranteed
+		 * to be unreachable by the guest (see kvm_tdp_mmu_put_root()
+		 * for more details), and unlike the legacy MMU, no vCPU kick
+		 * is needed to play nice with lockless shadow walks as the TDP
+		 * MMU protects its paging structures via RCU.  Note, zapping
+		 * will still flush on yield, but that's a minor performance
+		 * blip and not a functional issue.
+		 */
+		(void)zap_gfn_range(kvm, root, 0, -1ull, true, false, true);
 
 		/*
 		 * Put the reference acquired in
@@ -860,9 +868,6 @@  void kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_invalidated_roots(struct kvm *kvm)
 	}
 
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-
-	if (flush)
-		kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
 }
 
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