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mainlining shenanigans
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Defer TLB flushes to the caller when freeing TDP MMU shadow pages instead of immediately flushing. Because the shadow pages are freed in an RCU callback, so long as at least one CPU holds RCU, all CPUs are protected. For vCPUs running in the guest, i.e. consuming TLB entries, KVM only needs to ensure the caller services the pending TLB flush before dropping its RCU protections. I.e. use the caller's RCU as a proxy for all vCPUs running in the guest. Deferring the flushes allows batching flushes, e.g. when installing a 1gb hugepage and zapping a pile of SPs. And when zapping an entire root, deferring flushes allows skipping the flush entirely (because flushes are not needed in that case). Avoiding flushes when zapping an entire root is especially important as synchronizing with other CPUs via IPI after zapping every shadow page can cause significant performance issues for large VMs. The issue is exacerbated by KVM zapping entire top-level entries without dropping RCU protection, which can lead to RCU stalls even when zapping roots backing relatively "small" amounts of guest memory, e.g. 2tb. Removing the IPI bottleneck largely mitigates the RCU issues, though it's likely still a problem for 5-level paging. A future patch will further address the problem by zapping roots in multiple passes to avoid holding RCU for an extended duration. Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20220226001546.360188-20-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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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.