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Introduce a selftest for Hyper-V PV TLB flush hypercalls (HvFlushVirtualAddressSpace/HvFlushVirtualAddressSpaceEx, HvFlushVirtualAddressList/HvFlushVirtualAddressListEx). The test creates one 'sender' vCPU and two 'worker' vCPU which do busy loop reading from a certain GVA checking the observed value. Sender vCPU swaos the data page with another page filled with a different value. The expectation for workers is also altered. Without TLB flush on worker vCPUs, they may continue to observe old value. To guard against accidental TLB flushes for worker vCPUs the test is repeated 100 times. Hyper-V TLB flush hypercalls are tested in both 'normal' and 'XMM fast' modes. Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20221101145426.251680-38-vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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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
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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.