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Recover TDP MMU huge page mappings in-place instead of zapping them when dirty logging is disabled, and rename functions that recover huge page mappings when dirty logging is disabled to move away from the "zap collapsible spte" terminology. Before KVM flushes TLBs, guest accesses may be translated through either the (stale) small SPTE or the (new) huge SPTE. This is already possible when KVM is doing eager page splitting (where TLB flushes are also batched), and when vCPUs are faulting in huge mappings (where TLBs are flushed after the new huge SPTE is installed). Recovering huge pages reduces the number of page faults when dirty logging is disabled: $ perf stat -e kvm:kvm_page_fault -- ./dirty_log_perf_test -s anonymous_hugetlb_2mb -v 64 -e -b 4g Before: 393,599 kvm:kvm_page_fault After: 262,575 kvm:kvm_page_fault vCPU throughput and the latency of disabling dirty-logging are about equal compared to zapping, but avoiding faults can be beneficial to remove vCPU jitter in extreme scenarios. Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823235648.3236880-5-dmatlack@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Linux kernel
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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 reStructuredText 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.