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Sean Christopherson 83cdb56864 KVM: x86/mmu: Differentiate between nr zapped and list unstable 
The return value of kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page() has evolved to become
overloaded to convey two separate pieces of information.  1) was at
least one page zapped and 2) has the list of MMU pages become unstable.

In it's original incarnation (as kvm_mmu_zap_page()), there was no
return value at all.  Commit 0738541396 ("KVM: MMU: awareness of new
kvm_mmu_zap_page behaviour") added a return value in preparation for
commit 4731d4c7a0 ("KVM: MMU: out of sync shadow core").  Although
the return value was of type 'int', it was actually used as a boolean
to indicate whether or not active_mmu_pages may have become unstable due
to zapping children.  Walking a list with list_for_each_entry_safe()
only protects against deleting/moving the current entry, i.e. zapping a
child page would break iteration due to modifying any number of entries.

Later, commit 60c8aec6e2 ("KVM: MMU: use page array in unsync walk")
modified mmu_zap_unsync_children() to return an approximation of the
number of children zapped.  This was not intentional, it was simply a
side effect of how the code was written.

The unintented side affect was then morphed into an actual feature by
commit 77662e0028 ("KVM: MMU: fix kvm_mmu_zap_page() and its calling
path"), which modified kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages() to use the number of
zapped pages when determining the number of MMU pages in use by the VM.

Finally, commit 54a4f0239f ("KVM: MMU: make kvm_mmu_zap_page() return
the number of pages it actually freed") added the initial page to the
return value to make its behavior more consistent with what most users
would expect.  Incorporating the initial parent page in the return value
of kvm_mmu_zap_page() breaks the original usage of restarting a list
walk on a non-zero return value to handle a potentially unstable list,
i.e. walks will unnecessarily restart when any page is zapped.

Fix this by restoring the original behavior of kvm_mmu_zap_page(), i.e.
return a boolean to indicate that the list may be unstable and move the
number of zapped children to a dedicated parameter.  Since the majority
of callers to kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page() don't care about either return
value, preserve the current definition of kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page() by
making it a wrapper of a new helper, __kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page().  This
avoids having to update every call site and also provides cleaner code
for functions that only care about the number of pages zapped.

Fixes: 54a4f0239f ("KVM: MMU: make kvm_mmu_zap_page() return
                      the number of pages it actually freed")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-02-20 22:48:48 +01:00
arch KVM: x86/mmu: Differentiate between nr zapped and list unstable 2019-02-20 22:48:48 +01:00
block for-linus-20190209 2019-02-09 10:26:09 -08:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto crypto: sm3 - fix undefined shift by >= width of value 2019-01-10 21:37:32 +08:00
Documentation Revert "KVM: MMU: document fast invalidate all pages" 2019-02-20 22:48:39 +01:00
drivers dmaengine-fix-5.0-rc6 2019-02-10 10:39:37 -08:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs for-linus-20190209 2019-02-09 10:26:09 -08:00
include KVM: Move the memslot update in-progress flag to bit 63 2019-02-20 22:48:37 +01:00
init psi: clarify the Kconfig text for the default-disable option 2019-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-02-10 09:48:18 -08:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-08 11:21:54 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm: migrate: don't rely on __PageMovable() of newpage after unlocking it 2019-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-08 11:21:54 -08:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-01-30 15:24:45 +01:00
scripts Bug fixes for gcc-plugins 2019-01-21 13:07:03 +13:00
security apparmor: Fix aa_label_build() error handling for failed merges 2019-02-01 08:01:39 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.0-rc6 2019-02-07 08:33:56 +00:00
tools selftests: kvm: add selftest for releasing VM file descriptor while in L2 2019-02-12 13:12:12 +01:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt KVM: Move the memslot update in-progress flag to bit 63 2019-02-20 22:48:37 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update .clang-format with the latest for_each macro list 2019-01-19 19:26:06 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2019-02-09 13:43:12 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc6 2019-02-10 14:42:20 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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.