kvm: x86/mmu: Support disabling dirty logging for the tdp MMU
Dirty logging ultimately breaks down MMU mappings to 4k granularity. When dirty logging is no longer needed, these granaular mappings represent a useless performance penalty. When dirty logging is disabled, search the paging structure for mappings that could be re-constituted into a large page mapping. Zap those mappings so that they can be faulted in again at a higher mapping level. Tested by running kvm-unit-tests and KVM selftests on an Intel Haswell machine. This series introduced no new failures. This series can be viewed in Gerrit at: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/virt/kvm/kvm/+/2538 Signed-off-by:Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Message-Id: <20201014182700.2888246-17-bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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