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KarimAllah Ahmed 0125ed16a9 KVM: Introduce a new guest mapping API 
commit e45adf665a upstream.

In KVM, specially for nested guests, there is a dominant pattern of:

	=> map guest memory -> do_something -> unmap guest memory

In addition to all this unnecessarily noise in the code due to boiler plate
code, most of the time the mapping function does not properly handle memory
that is not backed by "struct page". This new guest mapping API encapsulate
most of this boiler plate code and also handles guest memory that is not
backed by "struct page".

The current implementation of this API is using memremap for memory that is
not backed by a "struct page" which would lead to a huge slow-down if it
was used for high-frequency mapping operations. The API does not have any
effect on current setups where guest memory is backed by a "struct page".
Further patches are going to also introduce a pfn-cache which would
significantly improve the performance of the memremap case.

Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 4.19 as dependency of commit 1eff70a9ab
 "x86/kvm: Introduce kvm_(un)map_gfn()"]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-04-29 16:31:18 +02:00
arch KVM: nVMX: Always sync GUEST_BNDCFGS when it comes from vmcs01 2020-04-29 16:31:18 +02:00
block block, bfq: fix use-after-free in bfq_idle_slice_timer_body 2020-04-17 10:48:42 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: api - Fix race condition in crypto_spawn_alg 2020-02-11 04:34:05 -08:00
Documentation arm64: errata: Hide CTR_EL0.DIC on systems affected by Neoverse-N1 #1542419 2020-04-29 16:31:08 +02:00
drivers net: ipv6_stub: use ip6_dst_lookup_flow instead of ip6_dst_lookup 2020-04-29 16:31:17 +02:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:21:29 +01:00
fs f2fs: fix to avoid memory leakage in f2fs_listxattr 2020-04-29 16:31:17 +02:00
include KVM: Introduce a new guest mapping API 2020-04-29 16:31:18 +02:00
init fork: fix some -Wmissing-prototypes warnings 2019-12-05 09:21:04 +01:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index 2020-04-29 16:31:13 +02:00
kernel blktrace: fix dereference after null check 2020-04-29 16:31:17 +02:00
lib lib/raid6: use vdupq_n_u8 to avoid endianness warnings 2020-04-23 10:30:15 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm/vmalloc.c: move 'area->pages' after if statement 2020-04-21 09:03:13 +02:00
net net: ipv6_stub: use ip6_dst_lookup_flow instead of ip6_dst_lookup 2020-04-29 16:31:17 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Don't try to remove user's homedir on clean 2020-02-11 04:34:05 -08:00
scripts kconfig: qconf: Fix a few alignment issues 2020-04-29 16:31:13 +02:00
security KEYS: Don't write out to userspace while holding key semaphore 2020-04-23 10:30:24 +02:00
sound ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Add quirk for MPMAN MPWIN895CL tablet 2020-04-29 16:31:15 +02:00
tools tracing/selftests: Turn off timeout setting 2020-04-29 16:31:15 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-13 10:44:59 +02:00
virt KVM: Introduce a new guest mapping API 2020-04-29 16:31:18 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 16:38:49 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.118 2020-04-23 10:30:24 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.