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KVM x86 fixes for 6.8, round 2: - When emulating an atomic access, mark the gfn as dirty in the memslot to fix a bug where KVM could fail to mark the slot as dirty during live migration, ultimately resulting in guest data corruption due to a dirty page not being re-copied from the source to the target. - Check for mmu_notifier invalidation events before faulting in the pfn, and before acquiring mmu_lock, to avoid unnecessary work and lock contention. Contending mmu_lock is especially problematic on preemptible kernels, as KVM may yield mmu_lock in response to the contention, which severely degrades overall performance due to vCPUs making it difficult for the task that triggered invalidation to make forward progress. Note, due to another kernel bug, this fix isn't limited to preemtible kernels, as any kernel built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=y will yield contended rwlocks and spinlocks. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240110214723.695930-1-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 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.