KVM: ppc: directly insert shadow mappings into the hardware TLB

Formerly, we used to maintain a per-vcpu shadow TLB and on every entry to the
guest would load this array into the hardware TLB. This consumed 1280 bytes of
memory (64 entries of 16 bytes plus a struct page pointer each), and also
required some assembly to loop over the array on every entry.

Instead of saving a copy in memory, we can just store shadow mappings directly
into the hardware TLB, accepting that the host kernel will clobber these as
part of the normal 440 TLB round robin. When we do that we need less than half
the memory, and we have decreased the exit handling time for all guest exits,
at the cost of increased number of TLB misses because the host overwrites some
guest entries.

These savings will be increased on processors with larger TLBs or which
implement intelligent flush instructions like tlbivax (which will avoid the
need to walk arrays in software).

In addition to that and to the code simplification, we have a greater chance of
leaving other host userspace mappings in the TLB, instead of forcing all
subsequent tasks to re-fault all their mappings.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/44x_tlb.h b/arch/powerpc/kvm/44x_tlb.h
index b1029af..772191f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/44x_tlb.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/44x_tlb.h
@@ -25,11 +25,8 @@
 
 extern int kvmppc_44x_tlb_index(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t eaddr,
                                 unsigned int pid, unsigned int as);
-extern struct kvmppc_44x_tlbe *kvmppc_44x_dtlb_search(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
-                                                      gva_t eaddr);
-extern struct kvmppc_44x_tlbe *kvmppc_44x_itlb_search(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
-                                                      gva_t eaddr);
-extern void kvmppc_tlbe_set_modified(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned int i);
+extern int kvmppc_44x_dtlb_index(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t eaddr);
+extern int kvmppc_44x_itlb_index(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t eaddr);
 
 extern int kvmppc_44x_emul_tlbsx(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u8 rt, u8 ra, u8 rb,
                                  u8 rc);