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Add support for Eager Page Splitting pages that are mapped by nested
MMUs. Walk through the rmap first splitting all 1GiB pages to 2MiB
pages, and then splitting all 2MiB pages to 4KiB pages.
Note, Eager Page Splitting is limited to nested MMUs as a policy rather
than due to any technical reason (the sp->role.guest_mode check could
just be deleted and Eager Page Splitting would work correctly for all
shadow MMU pages). There is really no reason to support Eager Page
Splitting for tdp_mmu=N, since such support will eventually be phased
out, and there is no current use case supporting Eager Page Splitting on
hosts where TDP is either disabled or unavailable in hardware.
Furthermore, future improvements to nested MMU scalability may diverge
the code from the legacy shadow paging implementation. These
improvements will be simpler to make if Eager Page Splitting does not
have to worry about legacy shadow paging.
Splitting huge pages mapped by nested MMUs requires dealing with some
extra complexity beyond that of the TDP MMU:
(1) The shadow MMU has a limit on the number of shadow pages that are
allowed to be allocated. So, as a policy, Eager Page Splitting
refuses to split if there are KVM_MIN_FREE_MMU_PAGES or fewer
pages available.
(2) Splitting a huge page may end up re-using an existing lower level
shadow page tables. This is unlike the TDP MMU which always allocates
new shadow page tables when splitting.
(3) When installing the lower level SPTEs, they must be added to the
rmap which may require allocating additional pte_list_desc structs.
Case (2) is especially interesting since it may require a TLB flush,
unlike the TDP MMU which can fully split huge pages without any TLB
flushes. Specifically, an existing lower level page table may point to
even lower level page tables that are not fully populated, effectively
unmapping a portion of the huge page, which requires a flush. As of
this commit, a flush is always done always after dropping the huge page
and before installing the lower level page table.
This TLB flush could instead be delayed until the MMU lock is about to be
dropped, which would batch flushes for multiple splits. However these
flushes should be rare in practice (a huge page must be aliased in
multiple SPTEs and have been split for NX Huge Pages in only some of
them). Flushing immediately is simpler to plumb and also reduces the
chances of tripping over a CPU bug (e.g. see iTLB multihit).
[ This commit is based off of the original implementation of Eager Page
Splitting from Peter in Google's kernel from 2016. ]
Suggested-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220516232138.1783324-23-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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