KVM: Add memory slot versioning and use it to provide fast guest write interface

Keep track of memslots changes by keeping generation number in memslots
structure. Provide kvm_write_guest_cached() function that skips
gfn_to_hva() translation if memslots was not changed since previous
invocation.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Gleb Natapov 2010-10-18 15:22:23 +02:00 committed by Avi Kivity
parent 56028d0861
commit 49c7754ce5
4 changed files with 78 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ struct kvm_irq_routing_table {};
struct kvm_memslots {
int nmemslots;
u64 generation;
struct kvm_memory_slot memslots[KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS +
KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS];
};
@ -352,12 +353,18 @@ int kvm_write_guest_page(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, const void *data,
int offset, int len);
int kvm_write_guest(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, const void *data,
unsigned long len);
int kvm_write_guest_cached(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
void *data, unsigned long len);
int kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
gpa_t gpa);
int kvm_clear_guest_page(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, int offset, int len);
int kvm_clear_guest(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, unsigned long len);
struct kvm_memory_slot *gfn_to_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);
int kvm_is_visible_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);
unsigned long kvm_host_page_size(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);
void mark_page_dirty(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);
void mark_page_dirty_in_slot(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
gfn_t gfn);
void kvm_vcpu_block(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_vcpu_on_spin(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);