linux/virt/kvm/arm
Punit Agrawal 86658b819c KVM: arm/arm64: Skip updating PMD entry if no change
Contention on updating a PMD entry by a large number of vcpus can lead
to duplicate work when handling stage 2 page faults. As the page table
update follows the break-before-make requirement of the architecture,
it can lead to repeated refaults due to clearing the entry and
flushing the tlbs.

This problem is more likely when -

* there are large number of vcpus
* the mapping is large block mapping

such as when using PMD hugepages (512MB) with 64k pages.

Fix this by skipping the page table update if there is no change in
the entry being updated.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ad361f093c ("KVM: ARM: Support hugetlbfs backed huge pages")
Reviewed-by: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2018-08-13 15:31:35 +01:00
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hyp
vgic KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Do not use spin_lock_irqsave/restore with irq disabled 2018-08-12 12:15:18 +01:00
aarch32.c
arch_timer.c KVM: arm/arm64: Fix lost IRQs from emulated physcial timer when blocked 2018-07-31 07:53:20 +01:00
arm.c KVM: arm: Add 32bit get/set events support 2018-07-21 16:02:32 +01:00
mmio.c
mmu.c KVM: arm/arm64: Skip updating PMD entry if no change 2018-08-13 15:31:35 +01:00
perf.c
pmu.c
psci.c
trace.h