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Allocate the "new" memslot for !DELETE memslot updates straight away instead of filling an intermediate on-stack object and forcing kvm_set_memslot() to juggle the allocation and do weird things like reuse the old memslot object in MOVE. In the MOVE case, this results in an "extra" memslot allocation due to allocating both the "new" slot and the "invalid" slot, but that's a temporary and not-huge allocation, and MOVE is a relatively rare memslot operation. Regarding MOVE, drop the open-coded management of the gfn tree with a call to kvm_replace_memslot(), which already handles the case where new->base_gfn != old->base_gfn. This is made possible by virtue of not having to copy the "new" memslot data after erasing the old memslot from the gfn tree. Using kvm_replace_memslot(), and more specifically not reusing the old memslot, means the MOVE case now does hva tree and hash list updates, but that's a small price to pay for simplifying the code and making MOVE align with all the other flavors of updates. The "extra" updates are firmly in the noise from a performance perspective, e.g. the "move (in)active area" selfttests show a (very, very) slight improvement. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com> Message-Id: <f0d8c72727aa825cf682bd4e3da4b3fa68215dd4.1638817641.git.maciej.szmigiero@oracle.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.