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In advance of providing support for unaccepted memory, request 2M Page State Change (PSC) requests when the address range allows for it. By using a 2M page size, more PSC operations can be handled in a single request to the hypervisor. The hypervisor will determine if it can accommodate the larger request by checking the mapping in the nested page table. If mapped as a large page, then the 2M page request can be performed, otherwise the 2M page request will be broken down into 512 4K page requests. This is still more efficient than having the guest perform multiple PSC requests in order to process the 512 4K pages. In conjunction with the 2M PSC requests, attempt to perform the associated PVALIDATE instruction of the page using the 2M page size. If PVALIDATE fails with a size mismatch, then fallback to validating 512 4K pages. To do this, page validation is modified to work with the PSC structure and not just a virtual address range. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/050d17b460dfc237b51d72082e5df4498d3513cb.1686063086.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.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 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.