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[ Upstream commit 610265ea3da117db435868bd109f1861534a5634 ] slot_handle_leaf is a misnomer because it only operates on 4K SPTEs whereas "leaf" is used to describe any valid terminal SPTE (4K or large page). Rename slot_handle_leaf to slot_handle_level_4k to avoid confusion. Making this change makes it more obvious there is a benign discrepency between the legacy MMU and the TDP MMU when it comes to dirty logging. The legacy MMU only iterates through 4K SPTEs when zapping for collapsing and when clearing D-bits. The TDP MMU, on the other hand, iterates through SPTEs on all levels. The TDP MMU behavior of zapping SPTEs at all levels is technically overkill for its current dirty logging implementation, which always demotes to 4k SPTES, but both the TDP MMU and legacy MMU zap if and only if the SPTE can be replaced by a larger page, i.e. will not spuriously zap 2m (or larger) SPTEs. Opportunistically add comments to explain this discrepency in the code. Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Message-Id: <20211019162223.3935109-1-dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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.