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Date:   Thu, 3 Mar 2022 18:50:58 +0000
From:   Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 14/28] KVM: x86/mmu: Skip remote TLB flush when
 zapping all of TDP MMU
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Don't flush the TLBs when zapping all TDP MMU pages, as the only time KVM
> uses the slow version of "zap everything" is when the VM is being
> destroyed or the owning mm has exited.  In either case, KVM_RUN is
> unreachable for the VM, i.e. the guest TLB entries cannot be consumed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 11 ++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> index c231b60e1726..87706e9cc6f3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> @@ -874,14 +874,15 @@ bool __kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, int as_id, gfn_t start,
>  
>  void kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_all(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
> -	bool flush = false;
>  	int i;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * A TLB flush is unnecessary, KVM zaps everything if and only the VM
> +	 * is being destroyed or the userspace VMM has exited.  In both cases,
> +	 * KVM_RUN is unreachable, i.e. no vCPUs will ever service the request.
> +	 */
>  	for (i = 0; i < KVM_ADDRESS_SPACE_NUM; i++)
> -		flush = kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_gfn_range(kvm, i, 0, -1ull, flush);
> -
> -	if (flush)
> -		kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
> +		(void)kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_gfn_range(kvm, i, 0, -1ull, false);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.35.1.574.g5d30c73bfb-goog
>