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When performing a targeted zap on memslot removal, zap only MMU pages that shadow guest PTEs, as zapping all SPs that "match" the gfn is inexact and unnecessary. Furthermore, for_each_gfn_valid_sp() arguably shouldn't exist, because it doesn't do what most people would it expect it to do. The "round gfn for level" adjustment that is done for direct SPs (no gPTE) means that the exact gfn comparison will not get a match, even when a SP does "cover" a gfn, or was even created specifically for a gfn. For memslot deletion specifically, KVM's behavior will vary significantly based on the size and alignment of a memslot, and in weird ways. E.g. for a 4KiB memslot, KVM will zap more SPs if the slot is 1GiB aligned than if it's only 4KiB aligned. And as described below, zapping SPs in the aligned case overzaps for direct MMUs, as odds are good the upper-level SPs are serving other memslots. To iterate over all potentially-relevant gfns, KVM would need to make a pass over the hash table for each level, with the gfn used for lookup rounded for said level. And then check that the SP is of the correct level, too, e.g. to avoid over-zapping. But even then, KVM would massively overzap, as processing every level is all but guaranteed to zap SPs that serve other memslots, especially if the memslot being removed is relatively small. KVM could mitigate that issue by processing only levels that can be possible guest huge pages, i.e. are less likely to be re-used for other memslot, but while somewhat logical, that's quite arbitrary and would be a bit of a mess to implement. So, zap only SPs with gPTEs, as the resulting behavior is easy to describe, is predictable, and is explicitly minimal, i.e. KVM only zaps SPs that absolutely must be zapped. Cc: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com> Tested-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com> Message-ID: <20241009192345.1148353-2-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
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
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText 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.