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Don't force a TLB flush if mmu_spte_update() clears the Accessed bit, as access tracking tolerates false negatives, as evidenced by the mmu_notifier hooks that explicitly test and age SPTEs without doing a TLB flush. In practice, this is very nearly a nop. spte_write_protect() and spte_clear_dirty() never clear the Accessed bit. make_spte() always sets the Accessed bit for !prefetch scenarios. FNAME(sync_spte) only sets SPTE if the protection bits are changing, i.e. if a flush will be needed regardless of the Accessed bits. And FNAME(pte_prefetch) sets SPTE if and only if the old SPTE is !PRESENT. That leaves kvm_arch_async_page_ready() as the one path that will generate a !ACCESSED SPTE *and* overwrite a PRESENT SPTE. And that's very arguably a bug, as clobbering a valid SPTE in that case is nonsensical. Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241011021051.1557902-5-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.