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Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/kvm: touch all pages of args on each memstress iteration
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 16:09:13 -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Access the same memory addresses on each iteration of the memstress
> guest code.  This ensures that the state of KVM's page tables
> is the same after every iteration, including the pages that host the
> guest page tables for args and vcpu_args.
> 
> This difference is visible on the dirty_log_page_splitting_test
> on AMD machines.
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 selftests, thanks!

[1/1] selftests/kvm: touch all pages of args on each memstress iteration
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/07b4b2f4047f

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