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    KVM: x86/mmu: Clean up the gorilla math in mmu_topup_memory_caches() · 531281ad
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Clean up the minimums in mmu_topup_memory_caches() to document the
    driving mechanisms behind the minimums.  Now that encountering an empty
    cache is unlikely to trigger BUG_ON(), it is less dangerous to be more
    precise when defining the minimums.
    
    For rmaps, the logic is 1 parent PTE per level, plus a single rmap, and
    prefetched rmaps.  The extra objects in the current '8 + PREFETCH'
    minimum came about due to an abundance of paranoia in commit
    c41ef344 ("KVM: MMU: increase per-vcpu rmap cache alloc size"),
    i.e. it could have increased the minimum to 2 rmaps.  Furthermore, the
    unexpected extra rmap case was killed off entirely by commits
    f759e2b4 ("KVM: MMU: avoid pte_list_desc running out in
    kvm_mmu_pte_write") and f5a1e9f8 ("KVM: MMU: remove call to
    kvm_mmu_pte_write from walk_addr").
    
    For the so called page cache, replace '8' with 2*PT64_ROOT_MAX_LEVEL.
    The 2x multiplier is needed because the cache is used for both shadow
    pages and gfn arrays for indirect MMUs.
    
    And finally, for page headers, replace '4' with PT64_ROOT_MAX_LEVEL.
    
    Note, KVM now supports 5-level paging, i.e. the old minimums that used a
    baseline derived from 4-level paging were technically wrong.  But, KVM
    always allocates roots in a separate flow, e.g. it's impossible in the
    current implementation to actually need 5 new shadow pages in a single
    flow.  Use PT64_ROOT_MAX_LEVEL unmodified instead of subtracting 1, as
    the direct usage is likely more intuitive to uninformed readers, and the
    inflated minimum is unlikely to affect functionality in practice.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBen Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    Message-Id: <20200703023545.8771-9-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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