From 11feeb498086a3a5907b8148bdf1786a9b18fc55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:04:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kvm: optimize away THP checks in kvm_is_mmio_pfn() The checks on PG_reserved in the page structure on head and tail pages aren't necessary because split_huge_page wouldn't transfer the PG_reserved bit from head to tail anyway. This was a forward-thinking check done in the case PageReserved was set by a driver-owned page mapped in userland with something like remap_pfn_range in a VM_PFNMAP region, but using hugepmds (not possible right now). It was meant to be very safe, but it's overkill as it's unlikely split_huge_page could ever run without the driver noticing and tearing down the hugepage itself. And if a driver in the future will really want to map a reserved hugepage in userland using an huge pmd it should simply take care of marking all subpages reserved too to keep KVM safe. This of course would require such a hypothetical driver to tear down the huge pmd itself and splitting the hugepage itself, instead of relaying on split_huge_page, but that sounds very reasonable, especially considering split_huge_page wouldn't currently transfer the reserved bit anyway. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 24 ++---------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index d2836788561e..0fc25aed79a8 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -102,28 +102,8 @@ static bool largepages_enabled = true; bool kvm_is_mmio_pfn(pfn_t pfn) { - if (pfn_valid(pfn)) { - int reserved; - struct page *tail = pfn_to_page(pfn); - struct page *head = compound_trans_head(tail); - reserved = PageReserved(head); - if (head != tail) { - /* - * "head" is not a dangling pointer - * (compound_trans_head takes care of that) - * but the hugepage may have been splitted - * from under us (and we may not hold a - * reference count on the head page so it can - * be reused before we run PageReferenced), so - * we've to check PageTail before returning - * what we just read. - */ - smp_rmb(); - if (PageTail(tail)) - return reserved; - } - return PageReserved(tail); - } + if (pfn_valid(pfn)) + return PageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn)); return true; }