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    KVM: Keep memslots in tree-based structures instead of array-based ones · a54d8066
    Maciej S. Szmigiero authored
    The current memslot code uses a (reverse gfn-ordered) memslot array for
    keeping track of them.
    
    Because the memslot array that is currently in use cannot be modified
    every memslot management operation (create, delete, move, change flags)
    has to make a copy of the whole array so it has a scratch copy to work on.
    
    Strictly speaking, however, it is only necessary to make copy of the
    memslot that is being modified, copying all the memslots currently present
    is just a limitation of the array-based memslot implementation.
    
    Two memslot sets, however, are still needed so the VM continues to run
    on the currently active set while the requested operation is being
    performed on the second, currently inactive one.
    
    In order to have two memslot sets, but only one copy of actual memslots
    it is necessary to split out the memslot data from the memslot sets.
    
    The memslots themselves should be also kept independent of each other
    so they can be individually added or deleted.
    
    These two memslot sets should normally point to the same set of
    memslots. They can, however, be desynchronized when performing a
    memslot management operation by replacing the memslot to be modified
    by its copy.  After the operation is complete, both memslot sets once
    again point to the same, common set of memslot data.
    
    This commit implements the aforementioned idea.
    
    For tracking of gfns an ordinary rbtree is used since memslots cannot
    overlap in the guest address space and so this data structure is
    sufficient for ensuring that lookups are done quickly.
    
    The "last used slot" mini-caches (both per-slot set one and per-vCPU one),
    that keep track of the last found-by-gfn memslot, are still present in the
    new code.
    Co-developed-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMaciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
    Message-Id: <17c0cf3663b760a0d3753d4ac08c0753e941b811.1638817641.git.maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
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