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Commit 86ac7415 authored by Junaid Shahid's avatar Junaid Shahid Committed by Paul Gortmaker
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kvm: x86: mmu: Recovery of shattered NX large pages



commit 1aa9b957 upstream.

The page table pages corresponding to broken down large pages are zapped in
FIFO order, so that the large page can potentially be recovered, if it is
not longer being used for execution.  This removes the performance penalty
for walking deeper EPT page tables.

By default, one large page will last about one hour once the guest
reaches a steady state.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJunaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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