Paolo Bonzini 2a31b9db15 kvm: introduce manual dirty log reprotect ... There are two problems with KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG. First, and less important, it can take kvm->mmu_lock for an extended period of time. Second, its user can actually see many false positives in some cases. The latter is due to a benign race like this: 1. KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG returns a set of dirty pages and write protects them. 2. The guest modifies the pages, causing them to be marked ditry. 3. Userspace actually copies the pages. 4. KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG returns those pages as dirty again, even though they were not written to since (3). This is especially a problem for large guests, where the time between (1) and (3) can be substantial. This patch introduces a new capability which, when enabled, makes KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG not write-protect the pages it returns. Instead, userspace has to explicitly clear the dirty log bits just before using the content of the page. The new KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG ioctl can also operate on a 64-page granularity rather than requiring to sync a full memslot; this way, the mmu_lock is taken for small amounts of time, and only a small amount of time will pass between write protection of pages and the sending of their content. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>		2018-12-14 12:34:19 +01:00
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