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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 913ef4b7939..b8da6715d08 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -838,9 +838,15 @@ static int kvm_age_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp,
u64 *spte;
int young = 0;
- /* always return old for EPT */
+ /*
+ * Emulate the accessed bit for EPT, by checking if this page has
+ * an EPT mapping, and clearing it if it does. On the next access,
+ * a new EPT mapping will be established.
+ * This has some overhead, but not as much as the cost of swapping
+ * out actively used pages or breaking up actively used hugepages.
+ */
if (!shadow_accessed_mask)
- return 0;
+ return kvm_unmap_rmapp(kvm, rmapp, data);
spte = rmap_next(kvm, rmapp, NULL);
while (spte) {