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    KVM: MMU: Respect nonpae pagetable quadrant when zapping ptes · fce0657f
    Avi Kivity authored
    When a guest writes to a page that has an mmu shadow, we have to clear
    the shadow pte corresponding to the memory location touched by the guest.
    
    Now, in nonpae mode, a single guest page may have two or four shadow
    pages (because a nonpae page maps 4MB or 4GB, whereas the pae shadow maps
    2MB or 1GB), so we when we look up the page we find up to three additional
    aliases for the page.  Since we _clear_ the shadow pte, it doesn't matter
    except for a slight performance penalty, but if we want to _update_ the
    shadow pte instead of clearing it, it is vital that we don't modify the
    aliases.
    
    Fortunately, exactly which page is needed (the "quadrant") is easily
    computed, and is accessible in the shadow page header.  All we need is
    to ignore shadow pages from the wrong quadrants.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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