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Paolo Bonzini 1f4e5fc83a KVM: x86: fix nested guest live migration with PML
Shadow paging is fundamentally incompatible with the page-modification
log, because the GPAs in the log come from the wrong memory map.
In particular, for the EPT page-modification log, the GPAs in the log come
from L2 rather than L1.  (If there was a non-EPT page-modification log,
we couldn't use it for shadow paging because it would log GVAs rather
than GPAs).

Therefore, we need to rely on write protection to record dirty pages.
This has the side effect of bypassing PML, since writes now result in an
EPT violation vmexit.

This is relatively easy to add to KVM, because pretty much the only place
that needs changing is spte_clear_dirty.  The first access to the page
already goes through the page fault path and records the correct GPA;
it's only subsequent accesses that are wrong.  Therefore, we can equip
set_spte (where the first access happens) to record that the SPTE will
have to be write protected, and then spte_clear_dirty will use this
information to do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-09-27 13:13:39 +02:00
Documentation KVM/Hyper-V: Add new KVM capability KVM_CAP_HYPERV_DIRECT_TLBFLUSH 2019-09-24 13:37:13 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch KVM: x86: fix nested guest live migration with PML 2019-09-27 13:13:39 +02:00
block dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto - crypto and DM crypt advances that allow the crypto API to reclaim 2019-09-21 10:40:37 -07:00
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fs selinux/stable-5.4 PR 20190917 2019-09-23 11:21:04 -07:00
include cpu/SMT: create and export cpu_smt_possible() 2019-09-24 13:37:28 +02:00
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sound Main MIPS changes for v5.4: 2019-09-22 09:30:30 -07:00
tools KVM: x86: Check kvm_rebooting in kvm_spurious_fault() 2019-09-25 15:23:33 +02:00
usr kbuild: remove clean-dirs syntax 2019-08-29 23:54:29 +09:00
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Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
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README

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.