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Sean Christopherson
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Treat attempts to prefetch/prefault MMU SPTEs as spurious if there's an existing shadow-present SPTE, as overwriting a SPTE that may have been create by a "real" fault is at best confusing, and at worst potentially harmful. E.g. mmu_try_to_unsync_pages() doesn't unsync when prefetching, which creates a scenario where KVM could try to replace a Writable SPTE with a !Writable SPTE, as sp->unsync is checked prior to acquiring mmu_unsync_pages_lock. Note, this applies to three of the four flavors of "prefetch" in KVM: - KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY - Async #PF (host or PV) - Prefetching The fourth flavor, SPTE synchronization, i.e. FNAME(sync_spte), _only_ overwrites shadow-present SPTEs when calling make_spte(). But SPTE synchronization specifically uses mmu_spte_update(), and so naturally avoids the @prefetch check in mmu_set_spte(). Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20241010182427.1434605-6-seanjc@google.com>
Linux kernel
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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
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText 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.