KVM: x86/mmu: KVM: x86/mmu: Skip unsync when large pages are allowed

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Use the large-page metadata to avoid pointless attempts to search SP.

If the target GFN falls within a range where a large page is allowed,
then there cannot be a shadow page for that GFN; a shadow page in the
range would itself disallow using a large page. In that case, there
is nothing to unsync and mmu_try_to_unsync_pages() can return
immediately.

This is always true for TDP MMU without nested TDP, and holds for a
significant fraction of cases with shadow paging even all SPs are 4K.

For shadow paging, this optimization theoretically avoids work for about
1/e ~= 37% of GFNs, assuming one guest page table per 2M of memory and
that each GPT falls randomly into the 2M memory buckets. In a simple
test setup, it skipped unsync in a much higher percentage of cases,
mainly because the guest buddy allocator clusters GPTs into fewer
buckets.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@antgroup.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123090304.32286-2-jiangshanlai@gmail.com
[sean: check for hugepage after write-tracking, update comment]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

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