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Detect spurious page faults, e.g. page faults that occur when multiple vCPUs simultaneously access a not-present page, and skip the SPTE write, prefetch, and stats update for spurious faults. Note, the performance benefits of skipping the write and prefetch are likely negligible, and the false positive stats adjustment is probably lost in the noise. The primary motivation is to play nice with TDX's SEPT in the long term. SEAMCALLs (to program SEPT entries) are quite costly, e.g. thousands of cycles, and a spurious SEPT update will result in a SEAMCALL error (which KVM will ideally treat as fatal). Reported-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Message-Id: <20200923220425.18402-5-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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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
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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.