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[PATCH] KVM: MMU: Never free a shadow page actively serving as a root
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We always need cr3 to point to something valid, so if we detect that we're
freeing a root page, simply push it back to the top of the active list.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Avi Kivity authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jan 6, 2007
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions drivers/kvm/kvm.h
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Expand Up @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ struct kvm_mmu_page {
*/
int global; /* Set if all ptes in this page are global */
int multimapped; /* More than one parent_pte? */
int root_count; /* Currently serving as active root */
union {
u64 *parent_pte; /* !multimapped */
struct hlist_head parent_ptes; /* multimapped, kvm_pte_chain */
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20 changes: 18 additions & 2 deletions drivers/kvm/mmu.c
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Expand Up @@ -550,8 +550,13 @@ static void kvm_mmu_zap_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
*parent_pte = 0;
}
kvm_mmu_page_unlink_children(vcpu, page);
hlist_del(&page->hash_link);
kvm_mmu_free_page(vcpu, page->page_hpa);
if (!page->root_count) {
hlist_del(&page->hash_link);
kvm_mmu_free_page(vcpu, page->page_hpa);
} else {
list_del(&page->link);
list_add(&page->link, &vcpu->kvm->active_mmu_pages);
}
}

static int kvm_mmu_unprotect_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn)
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static void mmu_free_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
int i;
struct kvm_mmu_page *page;

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
if (vcpu->mmu.shadow_root_level == PT64_ROOT_LEVEL) {
hpa_t root = vcpu->mmu.root_hpa;

ASSERT(VALID_PAGE(root));
page = page_header(root);
--page->root_count;
vcpu->mmu.root_hpa = INVALID_PAGE;
return;
}
Expand All @@ -682,6 +690,8 @@ static void mmu_free_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

ASSERT(VALID_PAGE(root));
root &= PT64_BASE_ADDR_MASK;
page = page_header(root);
--page->root_count;
vcpu->mmu.pae_root[i] = INVALID_PAGE;
}
vcpu->mmu.root_hpa = INVALID_PAGE;
Expand All @@ -691,6 +701,8 @@ static void mmu_alloc_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
int i;
gfn_t root_gfn;
struct kvm_mmu_page *page;

root_gfn = vcpu->cr3 >> PAGE_SHIFT;

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
Expand All @@ -700,6 +712,8 @@ static void mmu_alloc_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
ASSERT(!VALID_PAGE(root));
root = kvm_mmu_get_page(vcpu, root_gfn, 0,
PT64_ROOT_LEVEL, 0, NULL)->page_hpa;
page = page_header(root);
++page->root_count;
vcpu->mmu.root_hpa = root;
return;
}
Expand All @@ -715,6 +729,8 @@ static void mmu_alloc_roots(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
root = kvm_mmu_get_page(vcpu, root_gfn, i << 30,
PT32_ROOT_LEVEL, !is_paging(vcpu),
NULL)->page_hpa;
page = page_header(root);
++page->root_count;
vcpu->mmu.pae_root[i] = root | PT_PRESENT_MASK;
}
vcpu->mmu.root_hpa = __pa(vcpu->mmu.pae_root);
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