kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages

commit 1aa9b9572b10529c2e64e2b8f44025d86e124308 upstream.

The page table pages corresponding to broken down large pages are zapped in
FIFO order, so that the large page can potentially be recovered, if it is
not longer being used for execution.  This removes the performance penalty
for walking deeper EPT page tables.

By default, one large page will last about one hour once the guest
reaches a steady state.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9:
 - Update another error path in kvm_create_vm() to use out_err_no_mmu_notifier
 - Adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index c73687b80e07..0fc93519e63e 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -613,6 +613,23 @@ static int kvm_create_vm_debugfs(struct kvm *kvm, int fd)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Called after the VM is otherwise initialized, but just before adding it to
+ * the vm_list.
+ */
+int __weak kvm_arch_post_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Called just after removing the VM from the vm_list, but before doing any
+ * other destruction.
+ */
+void __weak kvm_arch_pre_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+}
+
 static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type)
 {
 	int r, i;
@@ -660,11 +677,15 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type)
 		kvm->buses[i] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_io_bus),
 					GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!kvm->buses[i])
-			goto out_err;
+			goto out_err_no_mmu_notifier;
 	}
 
 	r = kvm_init_mmu_notifier(kvm);
 	if (r)
+		goto out_err_no_mmu_notifier;
+
+	r = kvm_arch_post_init_vm(kvm);
+	if (r)
 		goto out_err;
 
 	mutex_lock(&kvm_lock);
@@ -676,6 +697,11 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type)
 	return kvm;
 
 out_err:
+#if defined(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) && defined(KVM_ARCH_WANT_MMU_NOTIFIER)
+	if (kvm->mmu_notifier.ops)
+		mmu_notifier_unregister(&kvm->mmu_notifier, current->mm);
+#endif
+out_err_no_mmu_notifier:
 	cleanup_srcu_struct(&kvm->irq_srcu);
 out_err_no_irq_srcu:
 	cleanup_srcu_struct(&kvm->srcu);
@@ -728,6 +754,8 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
 	mutex_lock(&kvm_lock);
 	list_del(&kvm->vm_list);
 	mutex_unlock(&kvm_lock);
+	kvm_arch_pre_destroy_vm(kvm);
+
 	kvm_free_irq_routing(kvm);
 	for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_BUSES; i++) {
 		if (kvm->buses[i])