KVM: x86/mmu: Add infrastructure to allow walking rmaps outside of mmu_lock
Steal another bit from rmap entries (which are word aligned pointers, i.e. have 2 free bits on 32-bit KVM, and 3 free bits on 64-bit KVM), and use the bit to implement a *very* rudimentary per-rmap spinlock. The only anticipated usage of the lock outside of mmu_lock is for aging gfns, and collisions between aging and other MMU rmap operations are quite rare, e.g. unless userspace is being silly and aging a tiny range over and over in a tight loop, time between contention when aging an actively running VM is O(seconds). In short, a more sophisticated locking scheme shouldn't be necessary. Note, the lock only protects the rmap structure itself, SPTEs that are pointed at by a locked rmap can still be modified and zapped by another task (KVM drops/zaps SPTEs before deleting the rmap entries) Co-developed-by:James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Signed-off-by:
James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250204004038.1680123-10-jthoughton@google.com Signed-off-by:
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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