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KVM: x86/mmu: Reduce the update to the spte in FNAME(sync_spte)
Sometimes when the guest updates its pagetable, it adds only new gptes to it without changing any existed one, so there is no point to update the sptes for these existed gptes. Also when the sptes for these unchanged gptes are updated, the AD bits are also removed since make_spte() is called with prefetch=true which might result unneeded TLB flushing. Just do nothing if the gpte's permissions are unchanged. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@antgroup.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216154115.710033-7-jiangshanlai@gmail.com [sean: expand comment to call out A/D bits] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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@@ -985,6 +985,14 @@ static int FNAME(sync_spte)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, int
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drop_spte(vcpu->kvm, &sp->spt[i]);
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return 1;
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}
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/*
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* Do nothing if the permissions are unchanged. The existing SPTE is
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* still, and prefetch_invalid_gpte() has verified that the A/D bits
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* are set in the "new" gPTE, i.e. there is no danger of missing an A/D
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* update due to A/D bits being set in the SPTE but not the gPTE.
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*/
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if (kvm_mmu_page_get_access(sp, i) == pte_access)
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return 0;
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/* Update the shadowed access bits in case they changed. */
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kvm_mmu_page_set_access(sp, i, pte_access);

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