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<title>linux.git/virt/kvm/async_pf.c, branch v5.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>KVM: Add helpers to wake/query blocking vCPU</title>
<updated>2021-12-08T09:24:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-09T02:12:12+00:00</published>
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Add helpers to wake and query a blocking vCPU.  In addition to providing
nice names, the helpers reduce the probability of KVM neglecting to use
kvm_arch_vcpu_get_wait().

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20211009021236.4122790-20-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Add helpers to wake and query a blocking vCPU.  In addition to providing
nice names, the helpers reduce the probability of KVM neglecting to use
kvm_arch_vcpu_get_wait().

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20211009021236.4122790-20-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: Force PPC to define its own rcuwait object</title>
<updated>2021-12-08T09:24:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-09T02:11:57+00:00</published>
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Do not define/reference kvm_vcpu.wait if __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_WQP is true, and
instead force the architecture (PPC) to define its own rcuwait object.
Allowing common KVM to directly access vcpu-&gt;wait without a guard makes
it all too easy to introduce potential bugs, e.g. kvm_vcpu_block(),
kvm_vcpu_on_spin(), and async_pf_execute() all operate on vcpu-&gt;wait, not
the result of kvm_arch_vcpu_get_wait(), and so may do the wrong thing for
PPC.

Due to PPC's shenanigans with respect to callbacks and waits (it switches
to the virtual core's wait object at KVM_RUN!?!?), it's not clear whether
or not this fixes any bugs.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20211009021236.4122790-5-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Do not define/reference kvm_vcpu.wait if __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_WQP is true, and
instead force the architecture (PPC) to define its own rcuwait object.
Allowing common KVM to directly access vcpu-&gt;wait without a guard makes
it all too easy to introduce potential bugs, e.g. kvm_vcpu_block(),
kvm_vcpu_on_spin(), and async_pf_execute() all operate on vcpu-&gt;wait, not
the result of kvm_arch_vcpu_get_wait(), and so may do the wrong thing for
PPC.

Due to PPC's shenanigans with respect to callbacks and waits (it switches
to the virtual core's wait object at KVM_RUN!?!?), it's not clear whether
or not this fixes any bugs.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20211009021236.4122790-5-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code</title>
<updated>2020-08-12T17:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T01:39:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=64019a2e467a288a16b65ab55ddcbf58c1b00187'/>
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After the cleanup of page fault accounting, gup does not need to pass
task_struct around any more.  Remove that parameter in the whole gup
stack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-26-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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After the cleanup of page fault accounting, gup does not need to pass
task_struct around any more.  Remove that parameter in the whole gup
stack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-26-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: async_pf: change kvm_setup_async_pf()/kvm_arch_setup_async_pf() return type to bool</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T20:21:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-15T12:13:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e8c22266e68f0db2a7e11b0a9f29fd88ec0cfd4a'/>
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Unlike normal 'int' functions returning '0' on success, kvm_setup_async_pf()/
kvm_arch_setup_async_pf() return '1' when a job to handle page fault
asynchronously was scheduled and '0' otherwise. To avoid the confusion
change return type to 'bool'.

No functional change intended.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200615121334.91300-1-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Unlike normal 'int' functions returning '0' on success, kvm_setup_async_pf()/
kvm_arch_setup_async_pf() return '1' when a job to handle page fault
asynchronously was scheduled and '0' otherwise. To avoid the confusion
change return type to 'bool'.

No functional change intended.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200615121334.91300-1-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2020-06-12T18:05:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-12T18:05:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=52cd0d972fa6491928add05f11f97a4a59babe92'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The guest side of the asynchronous page fault work has been delayed to
  5.9 in order to sync with Thomas's interrupt entry rework, but here's
  the rest of the KVM updates for this merge window.

  MIPS:
   - Loongson port

  PPC:
   - Fixes

  ARM:
   - Fixes

  x86:
   - KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION optimizations
   - Fixes
   - Selftest fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (62 commits)
  KVM: x86: do not pass poisoned hva to __kvm_set_memory_region
  KVM: selftests: fix sync_with_host() in smm_test
  KVM: async_pf: Inject 'page ready' event only if 'page not present' was previously injected
  KVM: async_pf: Cleanup kvm_setup_async_pf()
  kvm: i8254: remove redundant assignment to pointer s
  KVM: x86: respect singlestep when emulating instruction
  KVM: selftests: Don't probe KVM_CAP_HYPERV_ENLIGHTENED_VMCS when nested VMX is unsupported
  KVM: selftests: do not substitute SVM/VMX check with KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE check
  KVM: nVMX: Consult only the "basic" exit reason when routing nested exit
  KVM: arm64: Move hyp_symbol_addr() to kvm_asm.h
  KVM: arm64: Synchronize sysreg state on injecting an AArch32 exception
  KVM: arm64: Make vcpu_cp1x() work on Big Endian hosts
  KVM: arm64: Remove host_cpu_context member from vcpu structure
  KVM: arm64: Stop sparse from moaning at __hyp_this_cpu_ptr
  KVM: arm64: Handle PtrAuth traps early
  KVM: x86: Unexport x86_fpu_cache and make it static
  KVM: selftests: Ignore KVM 5-level paging support for VM_MODE_PXXV48_4K
  KVM: arm64: Save the host's PtrAuth keys in non-preemptible context
  KVM: arm64: Stop save/restoring ACTLR_EL1
  KVM: arm64: Add emulation for 32bit guests accessing ACTLR2
  ...
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<pre>
Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "The guest side of the asynchronous page fault work has been delayed to
  5.9 in order to sync with Thomas's interrupt entry rework, but here's
  the rest of the KVM updates for this merge window.

  MIPS:
   - Loongson port

  PPC:
   - Fixes

  ARM:
   - Fixes

  x86:
   - KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION optimizations
   - Fixes
   - Selftest fixes"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (62 commits)
  KVM: x86: do not pass poisoned hva to __kvm_set_memory_region
  KVM: selftests: fix sync_with_host() in smm_test
  KVM: async_pf: Inject 'page ready' event only if 'page not present' was previously injected
  KVM: async_pf: Cleanup kvm_setup_async_pf()
  kvm: i8254: remove redundant assignment to pointer s
  KVM: x86: respect singlestep when emulating instruction
  KVM: selftests: Don't probe KVM_CAP_HYPERV_ENLIGHTENED_VMCS when nested VMX is unsupported
  KVM: selftests: do not substitute SVM/VMX check with KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE check
  KVM: nVMX: Consult only the "basic" exit reason when routing nested exit
  KVM: arm64: Move hyp_symbol_addr() to kvm_asm.h
  KVM: arm64: Synchronize sysreg state on injecting an AArch32 exception
  KVM: arm64: Make vcpu_cp1x() work on Big Endian hosts
  KVM: arm64: Remove host_cpu_context member from vcpu structure
  KVM: arm64: Stop sparse from moaning at __hyp_this_cpu_ptr
  KVM: arm64: Handle PtrAuth traps early
  KVM: x86: Unexport x86_fpu_cache and make it static
  KVM: selftests: Ignore KVM 5-level paging support for VM_MODE_PXXV48_4K
  KVM: arm64: Save the host's PtrAuth keys in non-preemptible context
  KVM: arm64: Stop save/restoring ACTLR_EL1
  KVM: arm64: Add emulation for 32bit guests accessing ACTLR2
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: async_pf: Inject 'page ready' event only if 'page not present' was previously injected</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T16:35:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-10T17:55:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2a18b7e7cd8882f626316c340c6f2fca49b5fa12'/>
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'Page not present' event may or may not get injected depending on
guest's state. If the event wasn't injected, there is no need to
inject the corresponding 'page ready' event as the guest may get
confused. E.g. Linux thinks that the corresponding 'page not present'
event wasn't delivered *yet* and allocates a 'dummy entry' for it.
This entry is never freed.

Note, 'wakeup all' events have no corresponding 'page not present'
event and always get injected.

s390 seems to always be able to inject 'page not present', the
change is effectively a nop.

Suggested-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200610175532.779793-2-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208081
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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'Page not present' event may or may not get injected depending on
guest's state. If the event wasn't injected, there is no need to
inject the corresponding 'page ready' event as the guest may get
confused. E.g. Linux thinks that the corresponding 'page not present'
event wasn't delivered *yet* and allocates a 'dummy entry' for it.
This entry is never freed.

Note, 'wakeup all' events have no corresponding 'page not present'
event and always get injected.

s390 seems to always be able to inject 'page not present', the
change is effectively a nop.

Suggested-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200610175532.779793-2-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208081
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: async_pf: Cleanup kvm_setup_async_pf()</title>
<updated>2020-06-11T16:35:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-10T17:55:31+00:00</published>
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schedule_work() returns 'false' only when the work is already on the queue
and this can't happen as kvm_setup_async_pf() always allocates a new one.
Also, to avoid potential race, it makes sense to to schedule_work() at the
very end after we've added it to the queue.

While on it, do some minor cleanup. gfn_to_pfn_async() mentioned in a
comment does not currently exist and, moreover, we can check
kvm_is_error_hva() at the very beginning, before we try to allocate work so
'retry_sync' label can go away completely.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200610175532.779793-1-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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schedule_work() returns 'false' only when the work is already on the queue
and this can't happen as kvm_setup_async_pf() always allocates a new one.
Also, to avoid potential race, it makes sense to to schedule_work() at the
very end after we've added it to the queue.

While on it, do some minor cleanup. gfn_to_pfn_async() mentioned in a
comment does not currently exist and, moreover, we can check
kvm_is_error_hva() at the very beginning, before we try to allocate work so
'retry_sync' label can go away completely.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200610175532.779793-1-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;sean.j.christopherson@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michel Lespinasse</name>
<email>walken@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:33:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d8ed45c5dcd455fc5848d47f86883a1b872ac0d0'/>
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This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap
locking API instead.

The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule:

// spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir .

@@
expression mm;
@@
(
-init_rwsem
+mmap_init_lock
|
-down_write
+mmap_write_lock
|
-down_write_killable
+mmap_write_lock_killable
|
-down_write_trylock
+mmap_write_trylock
|
-up_write
+mmap_write_unlock
|
-downgrade_write
+mmap_write_downgrade
|
-down_read
+mmap_read_lock
|
-down_read_killable
+mmap_read_lock_killable
|
-down_read_trylock
+mmap_read_trylock
|
-up_read
+mmap_read_unlock
)
-(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem)
+(mm)

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ying Han &lt;yinghan@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap
locking API instead.

The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule:

// spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir .

@@
expression mm;
@@
(
-init_rwsem
+mmap_init_lock
|
-down_write
+mmap_write_lock
|
-down_write_killable
+mmap_write_lock_killable
|
-down_write_trylock
+mmap_write_trylock
|
-up_write
+mmap_write_unlock
|
-downgrade_write
+mmap_write_downgrade
|
-down_read
+mmap_read_lock
|
-down_read_killable
+mmap_read_lock_killable
|
-down_read_trylock
+mmap_read_trylock
|
-up_read
+mmap_read_unlock
)
-(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem)
+(mm)

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ying Han &lt;yinghan@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: acknowledgment mechanism for async pf page ready notifications</title>
<updated>2020-06-01T08:26:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-25T14:41:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=557a961abbe06ed9dfd3b55ef7bd6e68295cda3d'/>
<id>557a961abbe06ed9dfd3b55ef7bd6e68295cda3d</id>
<content type='text'>
If two page ready notifications happen back to back the second one is not
delivered and the only mechanism we currently have is
kvm_check_async_pf_completion() check in vcpu_run() loop. The check will
only be performed with the next vmexit when it happens and in some cases
it may take a while. With interrupt based page ready notification delivery
the situation is even worse: unlike exceptions, interrupts are not handled
immediately so we must check if the slot is empty. This is slow and
unnecessary. Introduce dedicated MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_ACK MSR to communicate
the fact that the slot is free and host should check its notification
queue. Mandate using it for interrupt based 'page ready' APF event
delivery.

As kvm_check_async_pf_completion() is going away from vcpu_run() we need
a way to communicate the fact that vcpu-&gt;async_pf.done queue has
transitioned from empty to non-empty state. Introduce
kvm_arch_async_page_present_queued() and KVM_REQ_APF_READY to do the job.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200525144125.143875-7-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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If two page ready notifications happen back to back the second one is not
delivered and the only mechanism we currently have is
kvm_check_async_pf_completion() check in vcpu_run() loop. The check will
only be performed with the next vmexit when it happens and in some cases
it may take a while. With interrupt based page ready notification delivery
the situation is even worse: unlike exceptions, interrupts are not handled
immediately so we must check if the slot is empty. This is slow and
unnecessary. Introduce dedicated MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_ACK MSR to communicate
the fact that the slot is free and host should check its notification
queue. Mandate using it for interrupt based 'page ready' APF event
delivery.

As kvm_check_async_pf_completion() is going away from vcpu_run() we need
a way to communicate the fact that vcpu-&gt;async_pf.done queue has
transitioned from empty to non-empty state. Introduce
kvm_arch_async_page_present_queued() and KVM_REQ_APF_READY to do the job.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200525144125.143875-7-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>KVM: rename kvm_arch_can_inject_async_page_present() to kvm_arch_can_dequeue_async_page_present()</title>
<updated>2020-06-01T08:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-25T14:41:18+00:00</published>
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An innocent reader of the following x86 KVM code:

bool kvm_arch_can_inject_async_page_present(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
        if (!(vcpu-&gt;arch.apf.msr_val &amp; KVM_ASYNC_PF_ENABLED))
                return true;
...

may get very confused: if APF mechanism is not enabled, why do we report
that we 'can inject async page present'? In reality, upon injection
kvm_arch_async_page_present() will check the same condition again and,
in case APF is disabled, will just drop the item. This is fine as the
guest which deliberately disabled APF doesn't expect to get any APF
notifications.

Rename kvm_arch_can_inject_async_page_present() to
kvm_arch_can_dequeue_async_page_present() to make it clear what we are
checking: if the item can be dequeued (meaning either injected or just
dropped).

On s390 kvm_arch_can_inject_async_page_present() always returns 'true' so
the rename doesn't matter much.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200525144125.143875-4-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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An innocent reader of the following x86 KVM code:

bool kvm_arch_can_inject_async_page_present(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
        if (!(vcpu-&gt;arch.apf.msr_val &amp; KVM_ASYNC_PF_ENABLED))
                return true;
...

may get very confused: if APF mechanism is not enabled, why do we report
that we 'can inject async page present'? In reality, upon injection
kvm_arch_async_page_present() will check the same condition again and,
in case APF is disabled, will just drop the item. This is fine as the
guest which deliberately disabled APF doesn't expect to get any APF
notifications.

Rename kvm_arch_can_inject_async_page_present() to
kvm_arch_can_dequeue_async_page_present() to make it clear what we are
checking: if the item can be dequeued (meaning either injected or just
dropped).

On s390 kvm_arch_can_inject_async_page_present() always returns 'true' so
the rename doesn't matter much.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20200525144125.143875-4-vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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