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Diffstat (limited to 'virt/kvm/kvm_main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 342043b30125..a65a2369f788 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -724,6 +724,15 @@ static int kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct mmu_notifier *mn, kvm->mn_active_invalidate_count++; spin_unlock(&kvm->mn_invalidate_lock); + /* + * Invalidate pfn caches _before_ invalidating the secondary MMUs, i.e. + * before acquiring mmu_lock, to avoid holding mmu_lock while acquiring + * each cache's lock. There are relatively few caches in existence at + * any given time, and the caches themselves can check for hva overlap, + * i.e. don't need to rely on memslot overlap checks for performance. + * Because this runs without holding mmu_lock, the pfn caches must use + * mn_active_invalidate_count (see above) instead of mmu_notifier_count. + */ gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start(kvm, range->start, range->end, hva_range.may_block); |