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The stage2 attr walker is already used for parallel walks. Since commit
f783ef1c0e ("KVM: arm64: Add fast path to handle permission relaxation
during dirty logging"), KVM acquires the read lock when
write-unprotecting a PTE. However, the walker only uses a simple store
to update the PTE. This is safe as the only possible race is with
hardware updates to the access flag, which is benign.
However, a subsequent change to KVM will allow more changes to the stage
2 page tables to be done in parallel. Prepare the stage 2 attribute
walker by performing atomic updates to the PTE when walking in parallel.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107215644.1895162-10-oliver.upton@linux.dev
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.