6d9aafb96d
Don't clear the dirty bit when aging a TDP MMU SPTE (in response to a MMU
notifier event). Prematurely clearing the dirty bit could cause spurious
PML updates if aging a page happened to coincide with dirty logging.
Note, tdp_mmu_set_spte_no_acc_track() flows into __handle_changed_spte(),
so the host PFN will be marked dirty, i.e. there is no potential for data
corruption.
Fixes: a6a0b05da9f3 ("kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU")
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210331004942.2444916-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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 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.