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Junaid Shahid 63dbe14d39 kvm: x86: mmu: Update documentation for fast page fault mechanism
Add a brief description of the lockless access tracking mechanism
to the documentation of fast page faults in locking.txt.

Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-01-09 14:46:12 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini 3f5ad8be37 KVM: hyperv: fix locking of struct kvm_hv fields
Introduce a new mutex to avoid an AB-BA deadlock between kvm->lock and
vcpu->mutex.  Protect accesses in kvm_hv_setup_tsc_page too, as suggested
by Roman.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-12-16 17:53:38 +01:00
Paolo Bonzini 58e3948a87 KVM: document lock orders
This is long overdue, and not really hard.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1476357057-17899-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-10-27 11:35:47 +02:00
Andrea Gelmini bb3541f175 KVM: x86: Fix typos
Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2016-06-14 11:16:28 +02:00
Feng Wu bf9f6ac8d7 KVM: Update Posted-Interrupts Descriptor when vCPU is blocked
This patch updates the Posted-Interrupts Descriptor when vCPU
is blocked.

pre-block:
- Add the vCPU to the blocked per-CPU list
- Set 'NV' to POSTED_INTR_WAKEUP_VECTOR

post-block:
- Remove the vCPU from the per-CPU list

Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@intel.com>
[Concentrate invocation of pre/post-block hooks to vcpu_block. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2015-10-01 15:06:53 +02:00
Masanari Iida 171800328f KVM: doc: Fix typo in doc/virtual/kvm
Correct spelling typo in Documentations/virtual/kvm

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2013-12-31 17:24:54 -02:00
Paolo Bonzini 2f303b74a6 KVM: Convert kvm_lock back to non-raw spinlock
In commit e935b8372c ("KVM: Convert kvm_lock to raw_spinlock"),
the kvm_lock was made a raw lock.  However, the kvm mmu_shrink()
function tries to grab the (non-raw) mmu_lock within the scope of
the raw locked kvm_lock being held.  This leads to the following:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rtmutex.c:659
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 55, name: kswapd0
Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffffa0376eac>] mmu_shrink+0x5c/0x1b0 [kvm]

Pid: 55, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.4.34_preempt-rt
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8106f2ad>] __might_sleep+0xfd/0x160
 [<ffffffff817d8d64>] rt_spin_lock+0x24/0x50
 [<ffffffffa0376f3c>] mmu_shrink+0xec/0x1b0 [kvm]
 [<ffffffff8111455d>] shrink_slab+0x17d/0x3a0
 [<ffffffff81151f00>] ? mem_cgroup_iter+0x130/0x260
 [<ffffffff8111824a>] balance_pgdat+0x54a/0x730
 [<ffffffff8111fe47>] ? set_pgdat_percpu_threshold+0xa7/0xd0
 [<ffffffff811185bf>] kswapd+0x18f/0x490
 [<ffffffff81070961>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50
 [<ffffffff81061970>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x50/0x50
 [<ffffffff81118430>] ? balance_pgdat+0x730/0x730
 [<ffffffff81060d2b>] kthread+0xdb/0xe0
 [<ffffffff8106e122>] ? finish_task_switch+0x52/0x100
 [<ffffffff817e1e94>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [<ffffffff81060c50>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x

After the previous patch, kvm_lock need not be a raw spinlock anymore,
so change it back.

Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gleb@redhat.com
Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-09-30 09:21:51 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini 4a937f96f3 KVM: protect kvm_usage_count with its own spinlock
The VM list need not be protected by a raw spinlock.  Separate the
two so that kvm_lock can be made non-raw.

Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gleb@redhat.com
Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-09-30 09:21:46 +02:00
Thomas Huth 519192aaae KVM: Add documentation for kvm->srcu lock
This patch documents the kvm->srcu lock (using the information from
a mail which has been posted by Marcelo Tosatti to the kvm mailing
list some months ago, see the following URL for details:
http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg90040.html )

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-09-24 19:12:12 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong 58d8b1728e KVM: MMU: document mmu-lock and fast page fault
Document fast page fault and mmu-lock in locking.txt

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-07-11 16:51:23 +03:00
Rob Landley ed16648eb5 Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:
cd Documentation
  mkdir virtual
  git mv kvm uml lguest virtual

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2011-05-06 09:22:02 -07:00