KVM: x86/mmu: Comment FNAME(sync_page) to document TLB flushing logic
Add a comment to FNAME(sync_page) to explain why the TLB flushing logic conspiculously doesn't handle the scenario of guest protections being reduced. Specifically, if synchronizing a SPTE drops execute protections, KVM will not emit a TLB flush, whereas dropping writable or clearing A/D bits does trigger a flush via mmu_spte_update(). Architecturally, until the GPTE is implicitly or explicitly flushed from the guest's perspective, KVM is not required to flush any old, stale translations. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Message-Id: <20220513195000.99371-3-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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