KVM: Add memory slot versioning and use it to provide fast guest write interface
Keep track of memslots changes by keeping generation number in memslots
structure. Provide kvm_write_guest_cached() function that skips
gfn_to_hva() translation if memslots was not changed since previous
invocation.
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 71beb27..bd25477 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -3190,6 +3190,7 @@
}
memcpy(slots, kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots));
slots->memslots[log->slot].dirty_bitmap = dirty_bitmap;
+ slots->generation++;
old_slots = kvm->memslots;
rcu_assign_pointer(kvm->memslots, slots);