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Check for A/D bits being disabled instead of the access tracking mask
being non-zero when deciding whether or not to attempt to fix a page
fault vian the fast path. Originally, the access tracking mask was
non-zero if and only if A/D bits were disabled by _KVM_ (including not
being supported by hardware), but that hasn't been true since nVMX was
fixed to honor EPTP12's A/D enabling, i.e. since KVM allowed L1 to cause
KVM to not use A/D bits while running L2 despite KVM using them while
running L1.
In other words, don't attempt the fast path just because EPT is enabled.
Note, attempting the fast path for all !PRESENT faults can "fix" a very,
_VERY_ tiny percentage of faults out of mmu_lock by detecting that the
fault is spurious, i.e. has been fixed by a different vCPU, but again the
odds of that happening are vanishingly small. E.g. booting an 8-vCPU VM
gets less than 10 successes out of 30k+ faults, and that's likely one of
the more favorable scenarios. Disabling dirty logging can likely lead to
a rash of collisions between vCPUs for some workloads that operate on a
common set of pages, but penalizing _all_ !PRESENT faults for that one
case is unlikely to be a net positive, not to mention that that problem
is best solved by not zapping in the first place.
The number of spurious faults does scale with the number of vCPUs, e.g. a
255-vCPU VM using TDP "jumps" to ~60 spurious faults detected in the fast
path (again out of 30k), but that's all of 0.2% of faults. Using legacy
shadow paging does get more spurious faults, and a few more detected out
of mmu_lock, but the percentage goes _down_ to 0.08% (and that's ignoring
faults that are reflected into the guest), i.e. the extra detections are
purely due to the sheer number of faults observed.
On the other hand, getting a "negative" in the fast path takes in the
neighborhood of 150-250 cycles. So while it is tempting to keep/extend
the current behavior, such a change needs to come with hard numbers
showing that it's actually a win in the grand scheme, or any scheme for
that matter.
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| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
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| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
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| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
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| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
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| Kbuild | ||
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| MAINTAINERS | ||
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| 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.
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.