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Now that KVM doesn't clobber Accessed bits of shadow-present SPTEs, e.g. when prefetching, mark folios as accessed only when zapping leaf SPTEs, which is a rough heuristic for "only in response to an mmu_notifier invalidation". Page aging and LRUs are tolerant of false negatives, i.e. KVM doesn't need to be precise for correctness, and re-marking folios as accessed when zapping entire roots or when zapping collapsible SPTEs is expensive and adds very little value. E.g. when a VM is dying, all of its memory is being freed; marking folios accessed at that time provides no known value. Similarly, because KVM marks folios as accessed when creating SPTEs, marking all folios as accessed when userspace happens to delete a memslot doesn't add value. The folio was marked access when the old SPTE was created, and will be marked accessed yet again if a vCPU accesses the pfn again after reloading a new root. Zapping collapsible SPTEs is a similar story; marking folios accessed just because userspace disable dirty logging is a side effect of KVM behavior, not a deliberate goal. As an intermediate step, a.k.a. bisection point, towards *never* marking folios accessed when dropping SPTEs, mark folios accessed when the primary MMU might be invalidating mappings, as such zappings are not KVM initiated, i.e. might actually be related to page aging and LRU activity. Note, x86 is the only KVM architecture that "double dips"; every other arch marks pfns as accessed only when mapping into the guest, not when mapping into the guest _and_ when removing from the guest. Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20241010182427.1434605-10-seanjc@google.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.