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Splitting huge pages requires allocating/finding shadow pages to replace the huge page. Shadow pages are keyed, in part, off the guest access permissions they are shadowing. For fully direct MMUs, there is no shadowing so the access bits in the shadow page role are always ACC_ALL. But during shadow paging, the guest can enforce whatever access permissions it wants. In particular, eager page splitting needs to know the permissions to use for the subpages, but KVM cannot retrieve them from the guest page tables because eager page splitting does not have a vCPU. Fortunately, the guest access permissions are easy to cache whenever page faults or FNAME(sync_page) update the shadow page tables; this is an extension of the existing cache of the shadowed GFNs in the gfns array of the shadow page. The access bits only take up 3 bits, which leaves 61 bits left over for gfns, which is more than enough. Now that the gfns array caches more information than just GFNs, rename it to shadowed_translation. While here, preemptively fix up the WARN_ON() that detects gfn mismatches in direct SPs. The WARN_ON() was paired with a pr_err_ratelimited(), which means that users could sometimes see the WARN without the accompanying error message. Fix this by outputting the error message as part of the WARN splat, and opportunistically make them WARN_ONCE() because if these ever fire, they are all but guaranteed to fire a lot and will bring down the kernel. Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Message-Id: <20220516232138.1783324-18-dmatlack@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.