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Before allocating a child shadow page table, all callers check whether the parent already points to a huge page and, if so, they drop that SPTE. This is done by drop_large_spte(). However, dropping the large SPTE is really only necessary before the sp is installed. While the sp is returned by kvm_mmu_get_child_sp(), installing it happens later in __link_shadow_page(). Move the call there instead of having it in each and every caller. To ensure that the shadow page is not linked twice if it was present, do _not_ opportunistically make kvm_mmu_get_child_sp() idempotent: instead, return an error value if the shadow page already existed. This is a bit more verbose, but clearer than NULL. Finally, now that the drop_large_spte() name is not taken anymore, remove the two underscores in front of __drop_large_spte(). Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <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
``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 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.