kvm: introduce manual dirty log reprotect

There are two problems with KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG.  First, and less important,
it can take kvm->mmu_lock for an extended period of time.  Second, its user
can actually see many false positives in some cases.  The latter is due
to a benign race like this:

  1. KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG returns a set of dirty pages and write protects
     them.
  2. The guest modifies the pages, causing them to be marked ditry.
  3. Userspace actually copies the pages.
  4. KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG returns those pages as dirty again, even though
     they were not written to since (3).

This is especially a problem for large guests, where the time between
(1) and (3) can be substantial.  This patch introduces a new
capability which, when enabled, makes KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG not
write-protect the pages it returns.  Instead, userspace has to
explicitly clear the dirty log bits just before using the content
of the page.  The new KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG ioctl can also operate on a
64-page granularity rather than requiring to sync a full memslot;
this way, the mmu_lock is taken for small amounts of time, and
only a small amount of time will pass between write protection
of pages and the sending of their content.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 448f011aa317..6af846c54660 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -4418,6 +4418,33 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_dirty_log *log)
 	return r;
 }
 
+int kvm_vm_ioctl_clear_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_clear_dirty_log *log)
+{
+	bool flush = false;
+	int r;
+
+	mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock);
+
+	/*
+	 * Flush potentially hardware-cached dirty pages to dirty_bitmap.
+	 */
+	if (kvm_x86_ops->flush_log_dirty)
+		kvm_x86_ops->flush_log_dirty(kvm);
+
+	r = kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect(kvm, log, &flush);
+
+	/*
+	 * All the TLBs can be flushed out of mmu lock, see the comments in
+	 * kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access().
+	 */
+	lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->slots_lock);
+	if (flush)
+		kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock);
+	return r;
+}
+
 int kvm_vm_ioctl_irq_line(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_irq_level *irq_event,
 			bool line_status)
 {