KVM: x86/mmu: Zap only obsolete roots if a root shadow page is zapped

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Zap only obsolete roots when responding to zapping a single root shadow
page.  Because KVM keeps root_count elevated when stuffing a previous
root into its PGD cache, shadowing a 64-bit guest means that zapping any
root causes all vCPUs to reload all roots, even if their current root is
not affected by the zap.

For many kernels, zapping a single root is a frequent operation, e.g. in
Linux it happens whenever an mm is dropped, e.g. process exits, etc...

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220225182248.3812651-5-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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Sean Christopherson 2022-02-25 18:22:45 +00:00 • committed by Paolo Bonzini

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arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h

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arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c

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arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

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