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Junaid Shahid 7c390d350f kvm: x86: Add fast CR3 switch code path
When using shadow paging, a CR3 switch in the guest results in a VM Exit.
In the common case, that VM exit doesn't require much processing by KVM.
However, it does acquire the MMU lock, which can start showing signs of
contention under some workloads even on a 2 VCPU VM when the guest is
using KPTI. Therefore, we add a fast path that avoids acquiring the MMU
lock in the most common cases e.g. when switching back and forth between
the kernel and user mode CR3s used by KPTI with no guest page table
changes in between.

For now, this fast path is implemented only for 64-bit guests and hosts
to avoid the handling of PDPTEs, but it can be extended later to 32-bit
guests and/or hosts as well.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2018-08-06 17:58:51 +02:00
arch kvm: x86: Add fast CR3 switch code path 2018-08-06 17:58:51 +02:00
block for-linus-20180713 2018-07-14 12:28:00 -07:00
certs certs/blacklist: fix const confusion 2018-06-26 09:43:03 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-07-19 07:32:44 -07:00
Documentation kvm: nVMX: Introduce KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE 2018-08-06 17:58:30 +02:00
drivers NVMe fixes for 4.18-rc6: 2018-07-22 13:21:45 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-07-22 12:04:51 -07:00
include kvm: nVMX: Introduce KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE 2018-08-06 17:58:30 +02:00
init Kbuild fixes for v4.18 2018-06-30 13:05:30 -07:00
ipc ipc: use new return type vm_fault_t 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-07-21 17:21:34 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-07-21 16:52:08 -07:00
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mm mm: make vm_area_alloc() initialize core fields 2018-07-21 15:24:03 -07:00
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security selinux/stable-4.18 PR 20180629 2018-06-30 11:15:12 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Yet another Clevo P950 quirk entry 2018-07-18 12:17:46 +02:00
tools KVM: selftests: add tests for shadow VMCS save/restore 2018-08-06 17:58:44 +02:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt Linux 4.18-rc6 2018-08-06 17:31:36 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
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COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include 2018-05-29 03:31:19 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Peter has moved 2018-07-21 12:50:46 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.18-rc6 2018-07-22 14:12:20 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.