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In KVM, specially for nested guests, there is a dominant pattern of: => map guest memory -> do_something -> unmap guest memory In addition to all this unnecessarily noise in the code due to boiler plate code, most of the time the mapping function does not properly handle memory that is not backed by "struct page". This new guest mapping API encapsulate most of this boiler plate code and also handles guest memory that is not backed by "struct page". The current implementation of this API is using memremap for memory that is not backed by a "struct page" which would lead to a huge slow-down if it was used for high-frequency mapping operations. The API does not have any effect on current setups where guest memory is backed by a "struct page". Further patches are going to also introduce a pfn-cache which would significantly improve the performance of the memremap case. Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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README
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.