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Introduce MMU_PRESENT to explicitly track which SPTEs are "present" from the MMU's perspective. Checking for shadow-present SPTEs is a very common operation for the MMU, particularly in hot paths such as page faults. With the addition of "removed" SPTEs for the TDP MMU, identifying shadow-present SPTEs is quite costly especially since it requires checking multiple 64-bit values. On 64-bit KVM, this reduces the footprint of kvm.ko's .text by ~2k bytes. On 32-bit KVM, this increases the footprint by ~200 bytes, but only because gcc now inlines several more MMU helpers, e.g. drop_parent_pte(). We now need to drop bit 11, used for the MMU_PRESENT flag, from the set of bits used to store the generation number in MMIO SPTEs. Otherwise MMIO SPTEs with bit 11 set would get false positives for is_shadow_present_spte() and lead to a variety of fireworks, from oopses to likely hangs of the host kernel. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20210225204749.1512652-21-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.