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Commit b8b9156e authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86/mmu: Comment FNAME(sync_page) to document TLB flushing logic



Add a comment to FNAME(sync_page) to explain why the TLB flushing logic
conspiculously doesn't handle the scenario of guest protections being
reduced.  Specifically, if synchronizing a SPTE drops execute protections,
KVM will not emit a TLB flush, whereas dropping writable or clearing A/D
bits does trigger a flush via mmu_spte_update().  Architecturally, until
the GPTE is implicitly or explicitly flushed from the guest's perspective,
KVM is not required to flush any old, stale translations.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220513195000.99371-3-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 9fb35657
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