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Commit c126d94f authored by Xiao Guangrong's avatar Xiao Guangrong Committed by Marcelo Tosatti
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KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte



Currently, kvm zaps the large spte if write-protected is needed, the later
read can fault on that spte. Actually, we can make the large spte readonly
instead of making them un-present, the page fault caused by read access can
be avoided

The idea is from Avi:
| As I mentioned before, write-protecting a large spte is a good idea,
| since it moves some work from protect-time to fault-time, so it reduces
| jitter.  This removes the need for the return value.

This version has fixed the issue reported in 6b73a960, the reason of that
issue is that fast_page_fault() directly sets the readonly large spte to
writable but only dirty the first page into the dirty-bitmap that means
other pages are missed. Fixed it by only the normal sptes (on the
PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL level) can be fast fixed

Reviewed-by: default avatarMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
parent 92a476cb
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