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In hardware TLB, invalidating TLB entries means the translations are removed from the TLB. In KVM shadowed vTLB, the translations (combinations of shadow paging and hardware TLB) are generally maintained as long as they remain "clean" when the TLB of an address space (i.e. a PCID or all) is flushed with the help of write-protections, sp->unsync, and kvm_sync_page(), where "clean" in this context means that no updates to KVM's SPTEs are needed. However, FNAME(invlpg) always zaps/removes the vTLB if the shadow page is unsync, and thus triggers a remote flush even if the original vTLB entry is clean, i.e. is usable as-is. Besides this, FNAME(invlpg) is largely is a duplicate implementation of FNAME(sync_spte) to invalidate a vTLB entry. To address both issues, reuse FNAME(sync_spte) to share the code and slightly modify the semantics, i.e. keep the vTLB entry if it's "clean" and avoid remote TLB flush. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@antgroup.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230216235321.735214-3-jiangshanlai@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <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.