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KVM: x86: Do not unload MMU roots when only toggling CR0.WP with TDP enabled
authorMathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Mon, 8 May 2023 15:44:54 +0000 (17:44 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 May 2023 11:58:40 +0000 (13:58 +0200)
commitb87ea79244f13fbb69b65941ad68e3d4640d08bf
tree62a10d3f4345fd49cf8099d81081a0300a8cfef1
parente126b3aca19170c1aadb8d2acfdc620f4696ae7f
KVM: x86: Do not unload MMU roots when only toggling CR0.WP with TDP enabled

[ Upstream commit 01b31714bd90be2784f7145bf93b7f78f3d081e1 ]

There is no need to unload the MMU roots with TDP enabled when only
CR0.WP has changed -- the paging structures are still valid, only the
permission bitmap needs to be updated.

One heavy user of toggling CR0.WP is grsecurity's KERNEXEC feature to
implement kernel W^X.

The optimization brings a huge performance gain for this case as the
following micro-benchmark running 'ssdd 10 50000' from rt-tests[1] on a
grsecurity L1 VM shows (runtime in seconds, lower is better):

                       legacy     TDP    shadow
kvm-x86/next@d8708b     8.43s    9.45s    70.3s
             +patch     5.39s    5.63s    70.2s

For legacy MMU this is ~36% faster, for TDP MMU even ~40% faster. Also
TDP and legacy MMU now both have a similar runtime which vanishes the
need to disable TDP MMU for grsecurity.

Shadow MMU sees no measurable difference and is still slow, as expected.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/rt-tests/rt-tests.git

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230322013731.102955-3-minipli@grsecurity.net
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c