From a25f7e1f8c1ff68213a63dada9d5e32dc1a0f587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avi Kivity Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:05:38 +0300 Subject: KVM: Reduce misfirings of the fork detector The kvm mmu tries to detects forks by looking for repeated writes to a page table. If it sees a fork, it unshadows the page table so the page table copying can proceed at native speed instead of being emulated. However, the detector also triggered on simple demand paging access patterns: a linear walk of memory would of course cause repeated writes to the same pagetable page, causing it to unshadow prematurely. Fix by resetting the fork detector if we detect a demand fault. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/kvm') diff --git a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h index 73ffbffb1097..bc64cceec039 100644 --- a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h +++ b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h @@ -421,6 +421,7 @@ static int FNAME(page_fault)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr, pgprintk("%s: guest page fault\n", __FUNCTION__); inject_page_fault(vcpu, addr, walker.error_code); FNAME(release_walker)(&walker); + vcpu->last_pt_write_count = 0; /* reset fork detector */ return 0; } @@ -442,6 +443,9 @@ static int FNAME(page_fault)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t addr, FNAME(release_walker)(&walker); + if (!write_pt) + vcpu->last_pt_write_count = 0; /* reset fork detector */ + /* * mmio: emulate if accessible, otherwise its a guest fault. */ -- cgit v1.2.3