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KVM: x86/mmu: Preserve nested TDP shadow page tables if they are used as roots
authorHyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:14:50 +0000 (10:14 +0900)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:25:18 +0000 (12:25 +0200)
commit7a2c70e777a00c32ebafd376a6fe31ebb91c5b20
tree1679f4f921862ecc6b11b24c1203df9c8a90a843
parent2abd5287f08319fa35764566b15c6e22cb1068db
KVM: x86/mmu: Preserve nested TDP shadow page tables if they are used as roots

kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages() excludes a shadow page whose root_count
is non-zero from top-level reclaim, because such a page cannot be
freed. The path in mmu_page_zap_pte() that recursively zaps a parentless
nested TDP child has no such check. As a result, a shadow page can
be zapped even if the page itself can't be freed; as the comment in
kvm_mmu_zap_oldest_mmu_pages() notes, zapping it will just force vCPUs
to rebuild the page.

As in top-level reclaim, do not recursively prepare zapping of a
nested TDP child whose root_count is non-zero.

Fixes: 2de4085cccea ("KVM: x86/MMU: Recursively zap nested TDP SPs when zapping last/only parent")
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c