Commit 01b3171
KVM: x86: Do not unload MMU roots when only toggling CR0.WP with TDP enabled
There is no need to unload the MMU roots with TDP enabled when only
CR0.WP has changed -- the paging structures are still valid, only the
permission bitmap needs to be updated.
One heavy user of toggling CR0.WP is grsecurity's KERNEXEC feature to
implement kernel W^X.
The optimization brings a huge performance gain for this case as the
following micro-benchmark running 'ssdd 10 50000' from rt-tests[1] on a
grsecurity L1 VM shows (runtime in seconds, lower is better):
legacy TDP shadow
kvm-x86/next@d8708b 8.43s 9.45s 70.3s
+patch 5.39s 5.63s 70.2s
For legacy MMU this is ~36% faster, for TDP MMU even ~40% faster. Also
TDP and legacy MMU now both have a similar runtime which vanishes the
need to disable TDP MMU for grsecurity.
Shadow MMU sees no measurable difference and is still slow, as expected.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/rt-tests/rt-tests.git
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230322013731.102955-3-minipli@grsecurity.net
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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