KVM: MMU: Optimize guest page table walk
authorTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:34:44 +0000 (00:34 +0900)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 22 May 2011 12:39:38 +0000 (08:39 -0400)
This patch optimizes the guest page table walk by using get_user()
instead of copy_from_user().

With this patch applied, paging64_walk_addr_generic() has become
about 0.5us to 1.0us faster on my Phenom II machine with NPT on.

Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h

index 1b6899088f97b5488d97cfc20a53c05c84a6f565..a32a1c8091491a29a17e6f260e27eaab73fbeb8c 100644 (file)
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr_generic)(struct guest_walker *walker,
                                    gva_t addr, u32 access)
 {
        pt_element_t pte;
+       pt_element_t __user *ptep_user;
        gfn_t table_gfn;
        unsigned index, pt_access, uninitialized_var(pte_access);
        gpa_t pte_gpa;
@@ -158,6 +159,9 @@ walk:
        pt_access = ACC_ALL;
 
        for (;;) {
+               gfn_t real_gfn;
+               unsigned long host_addr;
+
                index = PT_INDEX(addr, walker->level);
 
                table_gfn = gpte_to_gfn(pte);
@@ -166,9 +170,22 @@ walk:
                walker->table_gfn[walker->level - 1] = table_gfn;
                walker->pte_gpa[walker->level - 1] = pte_gpa;
 
-               if (kvm_read_guest_page_mmu(vcpu, mmu, table_gfn, &pte,
-                                           offset, sizeof(pte),
-                                           PFERR_USER_MASK|PFERR_WRITE_MASK)) {
+               real_gfn = mmu->translate_gpa(vcpu, gfn_to_gpa(table_gfn),
+                                             PFERR_USER_MASK|PFERR_WRITE_MASK);
+               if (real_gfn == UNMAPPED_GVA) {
+                       present = false;
+                       break;
+               }
+               real_gfn = gpa_to_gfn(real_gfn);
+
+               host_addr = gfn_to_hva(vcpu->kvm, real_gfn);
+               if (kvm_is_error_hva(host_addr)) {
+                       present = false;
+                       break;
+               }
+
+               ptep_user = (pt_element_t __user *)((void *)host_addr + offset);
+               if (get_user(pte, ptep_user)) {
                        present = false;
                        break;
                }