xen/24148-shadow-pgt-dying-op-performance.patch

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References: bnc#726332
# HG changeset patch
# User Gianluca Guida <gianluca.guida@citrix.com>
# Date 1321456773 0
# Node ID 3ecc8fef428138e4304ef11b47498981e63626b3
# Parent a5f1d3b1612bb48e1cb09dc66b0909e3613dc855
[shadow] Disable higher level pagetables early unshadow only when the "process dying" hypercall is used.
This patch fixes a performance problem in fully virtualized guests.
Signed-off-by: Gianluca Guida <gianluca.guida@citrix.com>
Tested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c
@@ -2743,8 +2743,9 @@ static inline void check_for_early_unsha
|| ( !v->domain->arch.paging.shadow.pagetable_dying_op
&& v->arch.paging.shadow.last_emulated_mfn_for_unshadow == mfn_x(gmfn) ) )
&& sh_mfn_is_a_page_table(gmfn)
- && !(mfn_to_page(gmfn)->shadow_flags
- & (SHF_L2_32|SHF_L2_PAE|SHF_L2H_PAE|SHF_L4_64)) )
+ && (!v->domain->arch.paging.shadow.pagetable_dying_op ||
+ !(mfn_to_page(gmfn)->shadow_flags
+ & (SHF_L2_32|SHF_L2_PAE|SHF_L2H_PAE|SHF_L4_64))) )
{
perfc_incr(shadow_early_unshadow);
sh_remove_shadows(v, gmfn, 1, 0 /* Fast, can fail to unshadow */ );