[PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: x86: skip gfn_track allocation when possible

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From: David Stevens <stevensd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Skip allocating gfn_track arrays when tracking of guest write access to
pages is not required. For VMs where the allocation can be avoided, this
saves 2 bytes per 4KB of guest memory.

Write tracking is used to manage shadow page tables in three cases -
when tdp is not supported, when nested virtualization is used, and for
GVT-g. If tdp_enable is set and the kernel is compiled without GVT-g,
then the gfn_track arrays can be allocated lazily when the shadow MMU is
initialized.

v1 -> v2:
 - lazily allocate gfn_track when shadow MMU is initialized, instead
   of looking at cpuid

David Stevens (2):
  KVM: x86: add config for non-kvm users of page tracking
  KVM: x86: only allocate gfn_track when necessary

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h       |  8 ++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_page_track.h |  5 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig                  |  3 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c                |  7 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c         | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                    |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/Kconfig          |  1 +
 7 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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2.33.0.464.g1972c5931b-goog




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