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Don't mark pages/folios as accessed in the primary MMU when zapping SPTEs, as doing so relies on kvm_pfn_to_refcounted_page(), and generally speaking is unnecessary and wasteful. KVM participates in page aging via mmu_notifiers, so there's no need to push "accessed" updates to the primary MMU. And if KVM zaps a SPTe in response to an mmu_notifier, marking it accessed _after_ the primary MMU has decided to zap the page is likely to go unnoticed, i.e. odds are good that, if the page is being zapped for reclaim, the page will be swapped out regardless of whether or not KVM marks the page accessed. Dropping x86's use of kvm_set_pfn_accessed() also paves the way for removing kvm_pfn_to_refcounted_page() and all its users. Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20241010182427.1434605-83-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.