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[0/8] KVM: xen: update shared_info and vcpu_info handling

Message ID 20230914084946.200043-1-paul@xen.org
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Series KVM: xen: update shared_info and vcpu_info handling |

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Paul Durrant Sept. 14, 2023, 8:49 a.m. UTC 
  From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>

Currently we treat the shared_info page as guest memory and the VMM informs
KVM of its location using a GFN. However it is not guest memory as such;
it's an overlay page. So we pointlessly invalidate and re-cache a mapping
to the *same page* of memory every time the guest requests that shared_info
be mapped into its address space. Let's avoid doing that by modifying the
pfncache code to allow activation using a fixed userspace HVA as well as
a GPA.

Also, if the guest does not hypercall to explicitly set a pointer to a
vcpu_info in its own memory, the default vcpu_info embedded in the
shared_info page should be used. At the moment the VMM has to set up a
pointer to the structure explicitly (again treating it like it's in
guest memory, despite being in an overlay page). Let's also avoid the
need for that. We already have a cached mapping for the shared_info
page so just use that directly by default.

Paul Durrant (8):
  KVM: pfncache: add a map helper function
  KVM: pfncache: add a mark-dirty helper
  KVM: pfncache: add a helper to get the gpa
  KVM: pfncache: base offset check on khva rather than gpa
  KVM: pfncache: allow a cache to be activated with a fixed (userspace)
    HVA
  KVM: xen: allow shared_info to be mapped by fixed HVA
  KVM: xen: prepare for using 'default' vcpu_info
  KVM: xen: automatically use the vcpu_info embedded in shared_info

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |   4 +
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |  18 ++---
 arch/x86/kvm/xen.c              | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 arch/x86/kvm/xen.h              |   6 +-
 include/linux/kvm_host.h        |  43 +++++++++++
 include/linux/kvm_types.h       |   3 +-
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h        |   7 +-
 virt/kvm/pfncache.c             | 129 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 8 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
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Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org