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Use the Accessed bit in SPTEs even when A/D bits are disabled in hardware, i.e. propagate accessed information to SPTE.Accessed even when KVM is doing manual tracking by making SPTEs not-present. In addition to eliminating a small amount of code in is_accessed_spte(), this also paves the way for preserving Accessed information when a SPTE is zapped in response to a mmu_notifier PROTECTION event, e.g. if a SPTE is zapped because NUMA balancing kicks in. Note, EPT is the only flavor of paging in which A/D bits are conditionally enabled, and the Accessed (and Dirty) bit is software-available when A/D bits are disabled. Note #2, there are currently no concrete plans to preserve Accessed information. Explorations on that front were the initial catalyst, but the cleanup is the motivation for the actual commit. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241011021051.1557902-13-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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