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Disallow creating hugepages with mixed memory attributes, e.g. shared versus private, as mapping a hugepage in this case would allow the guest to access memory with the wrong attributes, e.g. overlaying private memory with a shared hugepage. Tracking whether or not attributes are mixed via the existing disallow_lpage field, but use the most significant bit in 'disallow_lpage' to indicate a hugepage has mixed attributes instead using the normal refcounting. Whether or not attributes are mixed is binary; either they are or they aren't. Attempting to squeeze that info into the refcount is unnecessarily complex as it would require knowing the previous state of the mixed count when updating attributes. Using a flag means KVM just needs to ensure the current status is reflected in the memslots. Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20231027182217.3615211-20-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.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.