linux/virt
Sean Christopherson 8284765f03 KVM: Get reference to VM's address space in the async #PF worker
Get a reference to the target VM's address space in async_pf_execute()
instead of gifting a reference from kvm_setup_async_pf().  Keeping the
address space alive just to service an async #PF is counter-productive,
i.e. if the process is exiting and all vCPUs are dead, then NOT doing
get_user_pages_remote() and freeing the address space asap is desirable.

Handling the mm reference entirely within async_pf_execute() also
simplifies the async #PF flows as a whole, e.g. it's not immediately
obvious when the worker task vs. the vCPU task is responsible for putting
the gifted mm reference.

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110011533.503302-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2024-02-06 11:04:11 -08:00
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kvm KVM: Get reference to VM's address space in the async #PF worker 2024-02-06 11:04:11 -08:00
lib Revert "irqbypass: do not start cons/prod when failed connect" 2021-05-15 10:26:55 +01:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00