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    KVM: x86/mmu: Drop infrastructure for multiple page-track modes · 338068b5
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Drop "support" for multiple page-track modes, as there is no evidence
    that array-based and refcounted metadata is the optimal solution for
    other modes, nor is there any evidence that other use cases, e.g. for
    access-tracking, will be a good fit for the page-track machinery in
    general.
    
    E.g. one potential use case of access-tracking would be to prevent guest
    access to poisoned memory (from the guest's perspective).  In that case,
    the number of poisoned pages is likely to be a very small percentage of
    the guest memory, and there is no need to reference count the number of
    access-tracking users, i.e. expanding gfn_track[] for a new mode would be
    grossly inefficient.  And for poisoned memory, host userspace would also
    likely want to trap accesses, e.g. to inject #MC into the guest, and that
    isn't currently supported by the page-track framework.
    
    A better alternative for that poisoned page use case is likely a
    variation of the proposed per-gfn attributes overlay (linked), which
    would allow efficiently tracking the sparse set of poisoned pages, and by
    default would exit to userspace on access.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y2WB48kD0J4VGynX@google.com
    Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarYongwei Ma <yongwei.ma@intel.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230729013535.1070024-24-seanjc@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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