Linux kernel
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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.
Sean Christopherson
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Add a selftest that enables populating a VM with the maximum amount of guest memory allowed by the underlying architecture. Abuse KVM's memslots by mapping a single host memory region into multiple memslots so that the selftest doesn't require a system with terabytes of RAM. Default to 512gb of guest memory, which isn't all that interesting, but should work on all MMUs and doesn't take an exorbitant amount of memory or time. E.g. testing with ~64tb of guest memory takes the better part of an hour, and requires 200gb of memory for KVM's page tables when using 4kb pages. To inflicit maximum abuse on KVM' MMU, default to 4kb pages (or whatever the not-hugepage size is) in the backing store (memfd). Use memfd for the host backing store to ensure that hugepages are guaranteed when requested, and to give the user explicit control of the size of hugepage being tested. By default, spin up as many vCPUs as there are available to the selftest, and distribute the work of dirtying each 4kb chunk of memory across all vCPUs. Dirtying guest memory forces KVM to populate its page tables, and also forces KVM to write back accessed/dirty information to struct page when the guest memory is freed. On x86, perform two passes with a MMU context reset between each pass to coerce KVM into dropping all references to the MMU root, e.g. to emulate a vCPU dropping the last reference. Perform both passes and all rendezvous on all architectures in the hope that arm64 and s390x can gain similar shenanigans in the future. Measure and report the duration of each operation, which is helpful not only to verify the test is working as intended, but also to easily evaluate the performance differences different page sizes. Provide command line options to limit the amount of guest memory, set the size of each slot (i.e. of the host memory region), set the number of vCPUs, and to enable usage of hugepages. Signed-off-by:Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20220226001546.360188-29-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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