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[xen master] x86/shadow: Drop dubious lastpage diagnostic



commit b5d8b03db136dca2c7e755cd227265b5be451c88
Author:     Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri Jan 20 11:01:52 2023 +0000
Commit:     Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri Jan 20 19:39:32 2023 +0000

    x86/shadow: Drop dubious lastpage diagnostic
    
    This is a global variable (actually 3, one per GUEST_PAGING_LEVEL), operated
    on using atomics only (with no regard to what else shares the same 
cacheline),
    which emits a diagnostic (in debug builds only) without changing any program
    behaviour.
    
    It is presumably left-over debugging, as it interlinks the behaviour of all
    vCPUs in chronological order.  Based on the read-only p2m types, this
    diagnostic can be tripped by entirely legitimate guest behaviour.
    
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c b/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c
index 8b3e678fa0..3b06cfaf9a 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/shadow/multi.c
@@ -2597,14 +2597,7 @@ static int cf_check sh_page_fault(
 
     /* Ignore attempts to write to read-only memory. */
     if ( p2m_is_readonly(p2mt) && (ft == ft_demand_write) )
-    {
-        static unsigned long lastpage;
-        if ( xchg(&lastpage, va & PAGE_MASK) != (va & PAGE_MASK) )
-            gdprintk(XENLOG_DEBUG, "guest attempted write to read-only memory"
-                     " page. va page=%#lx, mfn=%#lx\n",
-                     va & PAGE_MASK, mfn_x(gmfn));
         goto emulate_readonly; /* skip over the instruction */
-    }
 
     /* In HVM guests, we force CR0.WP always to be set, so that the
      * pagetables are always write-protected.  If the guest thinks
--
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