xen: implement ptep_modify_prot_start/commit

Xen has a pte update function which will update a pte while preserving its accessed and dirty bits. This means that ptep_modify_prot_start() can be implemented as a simple read of the pte value. The hardware may update the pte in the meantime, but ptep_modify_prot_commit() updates it while preserving any changes that may have happened in the meantime. The updates in ptep_modify_prot_commit() are batched if we're currently in lazy mmu mode. The mmu_update hypercall can take a batch of updates to perform, but this code doesn't make particular use of that feature, in favour of using generic multicall batching to get them all into the hypervisor. The net effect of this is that each mprotect pte update turns from two expensive trap-and-emulate faults into they hypervisor into a single hypercall whose cost is amortized in a batched multicall. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kgugala · Jun 25, 2008 · e57778a · e57778a
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diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ static void __init xen_banner(void)
 {
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Booting paravirtualized kernel on %s\n",
 	       pv_info.name);
-	printk(KERN_INFO "Hypervisor signature: %s\n", xen_start_info->magic);
+	printk(KERN_INFO "Hypervisor signature: %s%s\n",
+	       xen_start_info->magic,
+	       xen_feature(XENFEAT_mmu_pt_update_preserve_ad) ? " (preserve-AD)" : "");
 }
 
 static void xen_cpuid(unsigned int *ax, unsigned int *bx,
@@ -1243,6 +1245,8 @@ asmlinkage void __init xen_start_kernel(void)
 
 	BUG_ON(memcmp(xen_start_info->magic, "xen-3", 5) != 0);
 
+	xen_setup_features();
+
 	/* Install Xen paravirt ops */
 	pv_info = xen_info;
 	pv_init_ops = xen_init_ops;
@@ -1252,14 +1256,17 @@ asmlinkage void __init xen_start_kernel(void)
 	pv_apic_ops = xen_apic_ops;
 	pv_mmu_ops = xen_mmu_ops;
 
+	if (xen_feature(XENFEAT_mmu_pt_update_preserve_ad)) {
+		pv_mmu_ops.ptep_modify_prot_start = xen_ptep_modify_prot_start;
+		pv_mmu_ops.ptep_modify_prot_commit = xen_ptep_modify_prot_commit;
+	}
+
 	machine_ops = xen_machine_ops;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	smp_ops = xen_smp_ops;
 #endif
 
-	xen_setup_features();
-
 	/* Get mfn list */
 	if (!xen_feature(XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap))
 		xen_build_dynamic_phys_to_machine();

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -323,6 +323,27 @@ void xen_set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 		preempt_enable();
 }
 
+pte_t xen_ptep_modify_prot_start(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+	/* Just return the pte as-is.  We preserve the bits on commit */
+	return *ptep;
+}
+
+void xen_ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
+				 pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+{
+	struct multicall_space mcs;
+	struct mmu_update *u;
+
+	mcs = xen_mc_entry(sizeof(*u));
+	u = mcs.args;
+	u->ptr = virt_to_machine(ptep).maddr | MMU_PT_UPDATE_PRESERVE_AD;
+	u->val = pte_val_ma(pte);
+	MULTI_mmu_update(mcs.mc, u, 1, NULL, DOMID_SELF);
+
+	xen_mc_issue(PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU);
+}
+
 /* Assume pteval_t is equivalent to all the other *val_t types. */
 static pteval_t pte_mfn_to_pfn(pteval_t val)
 {

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.h b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.h
@@ -52,4 +52,8 @@ void xen_set_pud_hyper(pud_t *ptr, pud_t val);
 void xen_pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep);
 void xen_pmd_clear(pmd_t *pmdp);
 
+pte_t xen_ptep_modify_prot_start(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep);
+void  xen_ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
+				  pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte);
+
 #endif	/* _XEN_MMU_H */
diff --git a/include/xen/interface/features.h b/include/xen/interface/features.h
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
  */
 #define XENFEAT_pae_pgdir_above_4gb        4
 
+/* x86: Does this Xen host support the MMU_PT_UPDATE_PRESERVE_AD hypercall? */
+#define XENFEAT_mmu_pt_update_preserve_ad  5
+
 #define XENFEAT_NR_SUBMAPS 1
 
 #endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_FEATURES_H__ */
diff --git a/include/xen/interface/xen.h b/include/xen/interface/xen.h
@@ -114,9 +114,14 @@
  * ptr[:2]  -- Machine address within the frame whose mapping to modify.
  *             The frame must belong to the FD, if one is specified.
  * val      -- Value to write into the mapping entry.
+ *
+ * ptr[1:0] == MMU_PT_UPDATE_PRESERVE_AD:
+ * As MMU_NORMAL_PT_UPDATE above, but A/D bits currently in the PTE are ORed
+ * with those in @val.
  */
-#define MMU_NORMAL_PT_UPDATE     0 /* checked '*ptr = val'. ptr is MA.       */
-#define MMU_MACHPHYS_UPDATE      1 /* ptr = MA of frame to modify entry for  */
+#define MMU_NORMAL_PT_UPDATE      0 /* checked '*ptr = val'. ptr is MA.       */
+#define MMU_MACHPHYS_UPDATE       1 /* ptr = MA of frame to modify entry for  */
+#define MMU_PT_UPDATE_PRESERVE_AD 2 /* atomically: *ptr = val | (*ptr&(A|D)) */
 
 /*
  * MMU EXTENDED OPERATIONS