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| author | Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> | 2016-03-30 13:38:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2016-04-01 12:10:10 +0200 |
| commit | 14f4760562e41d50817d56b42c821d70ad10b483 (patch) | |
| tree | a5883be4834d815db85463c1218b20da509b1830 /arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | |
| parent | 14ebda3394fd3e5388747e742e510b0802a65d24 (diff) | |
kvm: set page dirty only if page has been writable
In absence of shadow dirty mask, there is no need to set page dirty
if page has never been writable. This is a tiny optimization but
good to have for people who care much about dirty page tracking.
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index 70e95d097ef1..1ff4dbb73fb7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -557,8 +557,15 @@ static bool mmu_spte_update(u64 *sptep, u64 new_spte) !is_writable_pte(new_spte)) ret = true; - if (!shadow_accessed_mask) + if (!shadow_accessed_mask) { + /* + * We don't set page dirty when dropping non-writable spte. + * So do it now if the new spte is becoming non-writable. + */ + if (ret) + kvm_set_pfn_dirty(spte_to_pfn(old_spte)); return ret; + } /* * Flush TLB when accessed/dirty bits are changed in the page tables, @@ -605,7 +612,8 @@ static int mmu_spte_clear_track_bits(u64 *sptep) if (!shadow_accessed_mask || old_spte & shadow_accessed_mask) kvm_set_pfn_accessed(pfn); - if (!shadow_dirty_mask || (old_spte & shadow_dirty_mask)) + if (old_spte & (shadow_dirty_mask ? shadow_dirty_mask : + PT_WRITABLE_MASK)) kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn); return 1; } |