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Restrict the mapping level for SPTEs based on the guest MTRRs if and only if KVM may actually use the guest MTRRs to compute the "real" memtype. For all forms of paging, guest MTRRs are purely virtual in the sense that they are completely ignored by hardware, i.e. they affect the memtype only if software manually consumes them. The only scenario where KVM consumes the guest MTRRs is when shadow_memtype_mask is non-zero and the guest has non-coherent DMA, in all other cases KVM simply leaves the PAT field in SPTEs as '0' to encode WB memtype. Note, KVM may still ultimately ignore guest MTRRs, e.g. if the backing pfn is host MMIO, but false positives are ok as they only cause a slight performance blip (unless the guest is doing weird things with its MTRRs, which is extremely unlikely). Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20220715230016.3762909-5-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.