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Sean Christopherson d5c48debcc KVM: Move initialization of preempt notifier to kvm_vcpu_init()
Initialize the preempt notifier immediately in kvm_vcpu_init() to pave
the way for removing kvm_arch_vcpu_setup(), i.e. to allow arch specific
code to call vcpu_load() during kvm_arch_vcpu_create().

Back when preemption support was added, the location of the call to init
the preempt notifier was perfectly sane.  The overall vCPU creation flow
featured a single arch specific hook and the preempt notifer was used
immediately after its initialization (by vcpu_load()).  E.g.:

        vcpu = kvm_arch_ops->vcpu_create(kvm, n);
        if (IS_ERR(vcpu))
                return PTR_ERR(vcpu);

        preempt_notifier_init(&vcpu->preempt_notifier, &kvm_preempt_ops);

        vcpu_load(vcpu);
        r = kvm_mmu_setup(vcpu);
        vcpu_put(vcpu);
        if (r < 0)
                goto free_vcpu;

Today, the call to preempt_notifier_init() is sandwiched between two
arch specific calls, kvm_arch_vcpu_create() and kvm_arch_vcpu_setup(),
which needlessly forces x86 (and possibly others?) to split its vCPU
creation flow.  Init the preempt notifier prior to any arch specific
call so that each arch can independently decide how best to organize
its creation flow.

Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-01-27 19:59:25 +01:00
arch KVM: Move vcpu alloc and init invocation to common code 2020-01-27 19:59:20 +01:00
block block: fix splitting segments on boundary masks 2019-12-30 08:51:18 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto tpmdd fixes for Linux v5.5-rc3 2019-12-18 17:17:36 -08:00
Documentation RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
drivers RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
fs ocfs2: fix the crash due to call ocfs2_get_dlm_debug once less 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
include KVM: Unexport kvm_vcpu_cache and kvm_vcpu_{un}init() 2020-01-27 19:59:24 +01:00
init Revert "fs: remove ksys_dup()" 2020-01-02 16:15:33 -08:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
kernel memcg: account security cred as well to kmemcg 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-12-22 17:00:04 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/hugetlb: defer freeing of huge pages if in non-task context 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
net hsr: fix slab-out-of-bounds Read in hsr_debugfs_rename() 2019-12-30 20:36:27 -08:00
samples samples/seccomp: Zero out members based on seccomp_notif_sizes 2020-01-02 13:03:39 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.5 (2nd) 2020-01-03 11:21:25 -08:00
security + Bug fixes 2020-01-04 19:28:30 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.5-rc5 2020-01-03 11:10:31 -08:00
tools tools/kvm_stat: Fix kvm_exit filter name 2020-01-23 09:51:06 +01:00
usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-04 00:00:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Move initialization of preempt notifier to kvm_vcpu_init() 2020-01-27 19:59:25 +01:00
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CREDITS Linux 5.4-rc4 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 14:23:27 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.