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Paolo Bonzini ec283cb1dc KVM: x86/mmu: remove ept_ad field
The ept_ad field is used during page walk to determine if the guest PTEs
have accessed and dirty bits.  In the MMU role, the ad_disabled
bit represents whether the *shadow* PTEs have the bits, so it
would be incorrect to replace PT_HAVE_ACCESSED_DIRTY with just
!mmu->mmu_role.base.ad_disabled.

However, the similar field in the CPU mode, ad_disabled, is initialized
correctly: to the opposite value of ept_ad for shadow EPT, and zero
for non-EPT guest paging modes (which always have A/D bits).  It is
therefore possible to compute PT_HAVE_ACCESSED_DIRTY from the CPU mode,
like other page-format fields; it just has to be inverted to account
for the different polarity.

In fact, now that the CPU mode is distinct from the MMU roles, it would
even be possible to remove PT_HAVE_ACCESSED_DIRTY macro altogether, and
use !mmu->cpu_role.base.ad_disabled instead.  I am not doing this because
the macro has a small effect in terms of dead code elimination:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex
 103544	  16665	    112	 120321	  1d601    # as of this patch
 103746	  16665	    112	 120523	  1d6cb    # without PT_HAVE_ACCESSED_DIRTY

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2022-04-29 12:49:54 -04:00
arch KVM: x86/mmu: remove ept_ad field 2022-04-29 12:49:54 -04:00
block for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'kvm-fixes-for-5.18-rc5' into HEAD 2022-04-29 12:47:59 -04:00
drivers A single revert to fix a boot regression seen when clk_put() started 2022-04-03 12:21:14 -07:00
fs Updates to Tracing: 2022-04-03 12:26:01 -07:00
include Merge branch 'kvm-fixes-for-5.18-rc5' into HEAD 2022-04-29 12:47:59 -04:00
init Kconfig: Add option for asm goto w/ tied outputs to workaround clang-13 bug 2022-04-13 13:37:47 -04:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel Updates to Tracing: 2022-04-03 12:26:01 -07:00
lib for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm Filesystem/VFS changes for 5.18, part two 2022-04-01 13:50:50 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.18-rc1 and rethook patches. 2022-03-31 11:23:31 -07:00
samples dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
scripts modpost: restore the warning message for missing symbol versions 2022-04-03 03:11:51 +09:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.18-rc1 2022-04-01 10:32:46 -07:00
tools selftests: kvm/x86/xen: Replace a comma in the xen_shinfo_test with semicolon 2022-04-13 13:37:18 -04:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
virt KVM: fix bad user ABI for KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT 2022-04-29 12:38:22 -04:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS chrome platform changes for 5.18 2022-04-02 10:44:18 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc1 2022-04-03 14:08:21 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.