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The current memslot code uses a (reverse gfn-ordered) memslot array for keeping track of them. Because the memslot array that is currently in use cannot be modified every memslot management operation (create, delete, move, change flags) has to make a copy of the whole array so it has a scratch copy to work on. Strictly speaking, however, it is only necessary to make copy of the memslot that is being modified, copying all the memslots currently present is just a limitation of the array-based memslot implementation. Two memslot sets, however, are still needed so the VM continues to run on the currently active set while the requested operation is being performed on the second, currently inactive one. In order to have two memslot sets, but only one copy of actual memslots it is necessary to split out the memslot data from the memslot sets. The memslots themselves should be also kept independent of each other so they can be individually added or deleted. These two memslot sets should normally point to the same set of memslots. They can, however, be desynchronized when performing a memslot management operation by replacing the memslot to be modified by its copy. After the operation is complete, both memslot sets once again point to the same, common set of memslot data. This commit implements the aforementioned idea. For tracking of gfns an ordinary rbtree is used since memslots cannot overlap in the guest address space and so this data structure is sufficient for ensuring that lookups are done quickly. The "last used slot" mini-caches (both per-slot set one and per-vCPU one), that keep track of the last found-by-gfn memslot, are still present in the new code. Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com> Message-Id: <17c0cf3663b760a0d3753d4ac08c0753e941b811.1638817641.git.maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com> |
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Linux kernel
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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,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.