KVM: x86: Avoid guest page table walk when gpa_available is set
When a guest causes a page fault which requires emulation, the
vcpu->arch.gpa_available flag is set to indicate that cr2 contains a
valid GPA.
Currently, emulator_read_write_onepage() makes use of gpa_available flag
to avoid a guest page walk for a known MMIO regions. Lets not limit
the gpa_available optimization to just MMIO region. The patch extends
the check to avoid page walk whenever gpa_available flag is set.
Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
[Fix EPT=0 according to Wanpeng Li's fix, plus ensure VMX also uses the
new code. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
[Moved "ret < 0" to the else brach, as per David's review. - Radim]
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index f759888..a2c592b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -4843,6 +4843,12 @@ int kvm_mmu_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t cr2, u64 error_code,
enum emulation_result er;
bool direct = vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map || mmu_is_nested(vcpu);
+ /* With shadow page tables, fault_address contains a GVA or nGPA. */
+ if (vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map) {
+ vcpu->arch.gpa_available = true;
+ vcpu->arch.gpa_val = cr2;
+ }
+
if (unlikely(error_code & PFERR_RSVD_MASK)) {
r = handle_mmio_page_fault(vcpu, cr2, direct);
if (r == RET_MMIO_PF_EMULATE) {