linux-kernel - linux-next: build warning after merge of the kvm tree

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Message-ID: <20241028192945.2f1433fc@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:29:45 +1100
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Next
 Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: linux-next: build warning after merge of the kvm tree

Hi all,

After merging the kvm tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs) produced
this warning:

Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst:157: ERROR: Malformed table.

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| At the beginning::                                                      |
|                                                                         |
|       spte.W = 0                                                              |
|       spte.Accessed = 1                                                       |
+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| CPU 0:                              | CPU 1:                            |
+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| In mmu_spte_update()::              |                                   |
|                                     |                                   |
|  old_spte = *spte;                  |                                   |
|                                     |                                   |
|                                     |                                   |
|  /* 'if' condition is satisfied. */ |                                   |
|  if (old_spte.Accessed == 1 &&      |                                   |
|       old_spte.W == 0)              |                                   |
|     spte = new_spte;                |                                   |
+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|                                     | on fast page fault path::         |
|                                     |                                   |
|                                     |    spte.W = 1                     |
|                                     |                                   |
|                                     | memory write on the spte::        |
|                                     |                                   |
|                                     |    spte.Dirty = 1                 |
+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|  ::                                 |                                   |
|                                     |                                   |
|   else                              |                                   |
|     old_spte = xchg(spte, new_spte);|                                   |
|   if (old_spte.Accessed &&          |                                   |
|       !new_spte.Accessed)           |                                   |
|     flush = true;                   |                                   |
|   if (old_spte.Dirty &&             |                                   |
|       !new_spte.Dirty)              |                                   |
|     flush = true;                   |                                   |
|     OOPS!!!                         |                                   |
+-------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+

Introduced by commit

  5f6a3badbb74 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Mark page/folio accessed only when zapping leaf SPTEs")

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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