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Lai Jiangshan
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Drop FNAME(is_self_change_mapping) and instead rely on
kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust() to adjust the hugepage accordingly. Prior to
commit 4cd071d13c ("KVM: x86/mmu: Move calls to thp_adjust() down a
level"), the hugepage adjustment was done before allocating new shadow
pages, i.e. failed to restrict the hugepage sizes if a new shadow page
resulted in account_shadowed() changing the disallowed hugepage tracking.
Removing FNAME(is_self_change_mapping) fixes a bug reported by Huang Hang
where KVM unnecessarily forces a 4KiB page. FNAME(is_self_change_mapping)
has a defect in that it blindly disables _all_ hugepage mappings rather
than trying to reduce the size of the hugepage. If the guest is writing
to a 1GiB page and the 1GiB is self-referential but a 2MiB page is not,
then KVM can and should create a 2MiB mapping.
Add a comment above the call to kvm_mmu_hugepage_adjust() to call out the
new dependency on adjusting the hugepage size after walking indirect PTEs.
Reported-by: Huang Hang <hhuang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@antgroup.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221213125538.81209-1-jiangshanlai@gmail.com
[sean: rework changelog after separating out the emulator change]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20230202182817.407394-4-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text 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.