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Sean Christopherson 21f317826e KVM: x86/mmu: Remove the defunct update_pte() paging hook
commit c5e2184d1544f9e56140791eff1a351bea2e63b9 upstream.

Remove the update_pte() shadow paging logic, which was obsoleted by
commit 4731d4c7a0 ("KVM: MMU: out of sync shadow core"), but never
removed.  As pointed out by Yu, KVM never write protects leaf page
tables for the purposes of shadow paging, and instead marks their
associated shadow page as unsync so that the guest can write PTEs at
will.

The update_pte() path, which predates the unsync logic, optimizes COW
scenarios by refreshing leaf SPTEs when they are written, as opposed to
zapping the SPTE, restarting the guest, and installing the new SPTE on
the subsequent fault.  Since KVM no longer write-protects leaf page
tables, update_pte() is unreachable and can be dropped.

Reported-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210115004051.4099250-1-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-05-19 10:12:51 +02:00
arch KVM: x86/mmu: Remove the defunct update_pte() paging hook 2021-05-19 10:12:51 +02:00
block block: return -EBUSY when there are open partitions in blkdev_reread_part 2021-04-28 13:39:59 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 11:37:59 +01:00
crypto async_xor: increase src_offs when dropping destination page 2021-05-14 09:49:59 +02:00
Documentation media: docs: Fix data organization of MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB101010_1X30 2021-05-14 09:50:23 +02:00
drivers tpm, tpm_tis: Reserve locality in tpm_tis_resume() 2021-05-19 10:12:51 +02:00
fs afs: Fix speculative status fetches 2021-05-14 09:50:45 +02:00
include smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async prototype 2021-05-14 09:50:46 +02:00
init seccomp: Fix CONFIG tests for Seccomp_filters 2021-05-14 09:50:24 +02:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async prototype 2021-05-14 09:50:46 +02:00
lib bug: Remove redundant condition check in report_bug 2021-05-14 09:50:32 +02:00
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mm mm/memory-failure: unnecessary amount of unmapping 2021-05-14 09:50:45 +02:00
net sctp: delay auto_asconf init until binding the first addr 2021-05-14 09:50:46 +02:00
samples kfifo: fix ternary sign extension bugs 2021-05-14 09:50:45 +02:00
scripts kasan: fix hwasan build for gcc 2021-04-28 13:40:02 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted: Fix memory leak on object td 2021-05-19 10:12:50 +02:00
sound ALSA: usb: midi: don't return -ENOMEM when usb_urb_ep_type_check fails 2021-05-14 09:50:40 +02:00
tools perf session: Add swap operation for event TIME_CONV 2021-05-14 09:50:45 +02:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt KVM: Stop looking for coalesced MMIO zones if the bus is destroyed 2021-05-14 09:50:04 +02:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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Linux kernel
============

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.