On 05/07/2022 13:48, Jan Beulich wrote:
When a page table ends up with all contiguous entries (including all
identical attributes), it can be replaced by a superpage entry at the
next higher level. The page table itself can then be scheduled for
freeing.
The adjustment to LEVEL_MASK is merely to avoid leaving a latent trap
for whenever we (and obviously hardware) start supporting 512G mappings.
Note that cache sync-ing is likely more strict than necessary. This is
both to be on the safe side as well as to maintain the pattern of all
updates of (potentially) live tables being accompanied by a flush (if so
needed).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.t...@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <p...@xen.org>
