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x86: SHADOW_PAGING is deprecated
Addressing certain issues, in particular related to operations which may take excessively long and therefore would need preemption, has turned out overly costly. Since alternatives (HVM/PVH: HAP, PV: shim) are commonly available, the decision was to deprecate the functionality, while still retaining it for people to use at their own (security) risk. Memory-wise small enough guests may still be okay to run. Some CI testing depends on SHADOW_PAGING. Explicitly enable it when needed. This is CVE-2026-42493 / XSA-495. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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@@ -366,6 +366,16 @@ This is typically done by a guest kernel agent known as a "balloon driver".
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Status: Supported
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### Shadow paging
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Allows fully virtualized guests (HVM / PVH) to be run without (host side) page
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translation support by hardware (AMD: NPT, Intel: EPT).
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It is also required to migrate PV guests, and to allow L1TF-vulnerable guests
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to continue to run without compromising host security.
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Status: Supported, not security supported
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### Populate-on-demand memory
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This is a mechanism that allows normal operating systems with only a balloon driver
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@@ -498,7 +508,7 @@ This feature is independent
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of the ARM "page granularity" feature (see below).
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Status, x86 HVM/PVH, HAP: Supported
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Status, x86 HVM/PVH, Shadow, 2MiB: Supported
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Status, x86 HVM/PVH, Shadow, 2MiB: Supported, not security supported
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Status, ARM: Supported
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On x86 in shadow mode, only 2MiB (L2) superpages are available;
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