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[v12,47/84] KVM: x86/mmu: Don't mark unused faultin pages as accessed

Message ID 20240726235234.228822-48-seanjc@google.com (mailing list archive)
State Handled Elsewhere, archived
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Series KVM: Stop grabbing references to PFNMAP'd pages | expand

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Commit Message

Sean Christopherson July 26, 2024, 11:51 p.m. UTC
When finishing guest page faults, don't mark pages as accessed if KVM
is resuming the guest _without_ installing a mapping, i.e. if the page
isn't being used.  While it's possible that marking the page accessed
could avoid minor thrashing due to reclaiming a page that the guest is
about to access, it's far more likely that the gfn=>pfn mapping was
was invalidated, e.g. due a memslot change, or because the corresponding
VMA is being modified.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 3cdb1bd80823..95beb50748fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -4339,7 +4339,9 @@  static void kvm_mmu_finish_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	 * fault handler, and so KVM must (somewhat) speculatively mark the
 	 * folio dirty if KVM could locklessly make the SPTE writable.
 	 */
-	if (!fault->map_writable || r == RET_PF_RETRY)
+	if (r == RET_PF_RETRY)
+		kvm_release_page_unused(fault->refcounted_page);
+	else if (!fault->map_writable)
 		kvm_release_page_clean(fault->refcounted_page);
 	else
 		kvm_release_page_dirty(fault->refcounted_page);