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Today whenever a memslot is moved or deleted, KVM invalidates the entire page tables and generates fresh ones based on the new memslot layout. This behavior traditionally was kept because of a bug which was never fully investigated and caused VM instability with assigned GeForce GPUs. It generally does not have a huge overhead, because the old MMU is able to reuse cached page tables and the new one is more scalabale and can resolve EPT violations/nested page faults in parallel, but it has worse performance if the guest frequently deletes and adds small memslots, and it's entirely not viable for TDX. This is because TDX requires re-accepting of private pages after page dropping. For non-TDX VMs, this series therefore introduces the KVM_X86_QUIRK_SLOT_ZAP_ALL quirk, enabling users to control the behavior of memslot zapping when a memslot is moved/deleted. The quirk is turned on by default, leading to the zapping of all SPTEs when a memslot is moved/deleted; users however have the option to turn off the quirk, which limits the zapping only to those SPTEs hat lie within the range of memslot being moved/deleted. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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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 reStructuredText 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.