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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-16 17:55:35 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-16 17:55:35 +0100 |
commit | 10dc3747661bea9215417b659449bb7b8ed3df2c (patch) | |
tree | d943974b4941203a7db2fabe4896852cf0f16bc4 /Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | |
parent | Merge tag 'edac_for_4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp (diff) | |
parent | Merge tag 'kvm-s390-next-4.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/... (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"One of the largest releases for KVM... Hardly any generic
changes, but lots of architecture-specific updates.
ARM:
- VHE support so that we can run the kernel at EL2 on ARMv8.1 systems
- PMU support for guests
- 32bit world switch rewritten in C
- various optimizations to the vgic save/restore code.
PPC:
- enabled KVM-VFIO integration ("VFIO device")
- optimizations to speed up IPIs between vcpus
- in-kernel handling of IOMMU hypercalls
- support for dynamic DMA windows (DDW).
s390:
- provide the floating point registers via sync regs;
- separated instruction vs. data accesses
- dirty log improvements for huge guests
- bugfixes and documentation improvements.
x86:
- Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit
- alternative implementation of lowest-priority interrupts using
vector hashing (for better VT-d posted interrupt support)
- fixed guest debugging with nested virtualizations
- improved interrupt tracking in the in-kernel IOAPIC
- generic infrastructure for tracking writes to guest
memory - currently its only use is to speedup the legacy shadow
paging (pre-EPT) case, but in the future it will be used for
virtual GPUs as well
- much cleanup (LAPIC, kvmclock, MMU, PIT), including ubsan fixes"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (217 commits)
KVM: x86: remove eager_fpu field of struct kvm_vcpu_arch
KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Reset LRs at boot time
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Do not save an LR known to be empty
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Avoid accessing ICH registers
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Make GICD_SGIR quicker to hit
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Only wipe LRs on vcpu exit
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Reset LRs at boot time
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not save an LR known to be empty
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Move GICH_ELRSR saving to its own function
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Save maintenance interrupt state only if required
KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Avoid accessing GICH registers
KVM: s390: allocate only one DMA page per VM
KVM: s390: enable STFLE interpretation only if enabled for the guest
KVM: s390: wake up when the VCPU cpu timer expires
KVM: s390: step the VCPU timer while in enabled wait
KVM: s390: protect VCPU cpu timer with a seqcount
KVM: s390: step VCPU cpu timer during kvm_run ioctl
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index c81731096a43..481b6a9c25d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -392,11 +392,11 @@ To instantiate a large spte, four constraints must be satisfied: write-protected pages - the guest page must be wholly contained by a single memory slot -To check the last two conditions, the mmu maintains a ->write_count set of +To check the last two conditions, the mmu maintains a ->disallow_lpage set of arrays for each memory slot and large page size. Every write protected page -causes its write_count to be incremented, thus preventing instantiation of +causes its disallow_lpage to be incremented, thus preventing instantiation of a large spte. The frames at the end of an unaligned memory slot have -artificially inflated ->write_counts so they can never be instantiated. +artificially inflated ->disallow_lpages so they can never be instantiated. Zapping all pages (page generation count) ========================================= |