[06/10] KVM: use 'writable' as a hint to map writable pfn

Commit Message

Xiao Guangrong July 17, 2012, 2:43 p.m. UTC

In current code, we always map writable pfn for the read-fault, in order
to support readonly memslot, we map writable pfn only if 'writable'
is not NULL

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <[e-mail]>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 54fb47b..e9eab07 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1109,6 +1109,14 @@  static bool hva_to_pfn_fast(unsigned long addr, bool atomic, bool *async,
 	if (!(async || atomic))
 		return false;

+	/*
+	 * Fast pin a writable pfn only if it is a write fault request
+	 * or the caller allows to map a writable pfn for a read fault
+	 * request.
+	 */
+	if (!(write_fault || writable))
+		return false;
+
 	npages = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 1, page);
 	if (npages == 1) {
 		*pfn = page_to_pfn(page[0]);
@@ -1149,7 +1157,7 @@  static int hva_to_pfn_slow(unsigned long addr, bool *async, bool write_fault,
 		return npages;

 	/* map read fault as writable if possible */
-	if (unlikely(!write_fault)) {
+	if (unlikely(!write_fault) && writable) {
 		struct page *wpage[1];

 		npages = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 1, wpage);
@@ -1165,6 +1173,20 @@  static int hva_to_pfn_slow(unsigned long addr, bool *async, bool write_fault,
 	return npages;
 }

+/*
+ * Pin guest page in memory and return its pfn.
+ * @addr: host virtual address which maps memory to the guest
+ * @atomic: whether this function can sleep
+ * @async: whether this function need to wait IO complete if the
+ *         host page is not in the memory
+ * @write_fault: whether we should get a writable host page
+ * @writable: whether it allows to map a writable host page for !@write_fault
+ *
+ * The function will map a writable host page for these two cases:
+ * 1): @write_fault = true
+ * 2): @write_fault = false && @writable, @writable will tell the caller
+ *     whether the mapping is writable.
+ */
 static pfn_t hva_to_pfn(unsigned long addr, bool atomic, bool *async,
 			bool write_fault, bool *writable)
 {