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Vitaly Kuznetsov 2635b5c4a0 KVM: x86: interrupt based APF 'page ready' event delivery
Concerns were expressed around APF delivery via synthetic #PF exception as
in some cases such delivery may collide with real page fault. For 'page
ready' notifications we can easily switch to using an interrupt instead.
Introduce new MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_INT mechanism and deprecate the legacy one.

One notable difference between the two mechanisms is that interrupt may not
get handled immediately so whenever we would like to deliver next event
(regardless of its type) we must be sure the guest had read and cleared
previous event in the slot.

While on it, get rid on 'type 1/type 2' names for APF events in the
documentation as they are causing confusion. Use 'page not present'
and 'page ready' everywhere instead.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200525144125.143875-6-vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-06-01 04:26:07 -04:00
arch KVM: x86: interrupt based APF 'page ready' event delivery 2020-06-01 04:26:07 -04:00
block bdi: use bdi_dev_name() to get device name 2020-05-09 16:07:39 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto gcc-10: avoid shadowing standard library 'free()' in crypto 2020-05-09 15:58:04 -07:00
Documentation KVM: x86: interrupt based APF 'page ready' event delivery 2020-06-01 04:26:07 -04:00
drivers IOMMU Fixes for Linux v5.7-rc4 2020-05-10 11:26:23 -07:00
fs block-5.7-2020-05-09 2020-05-10 11:16:07 -07:00
include KVM: introduce kvm_read_guest_offset_cached() 2020-06-01 04:26:07 -04:00
init gcc-10: mark more functions __init to avoid section mismatch warnings 2020-05-09 17:50:03 -07:00
ipc ipc/mqueue.c: change __do_notify() to bypass check_kill_permission() 2020-05-07 19:27:20 -07:00
kernel Merge tag 'noinstr-x86-kvm-2020-05-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into HEAD 2020-05-20 03:40:09 -04:00
lib lockdep: Prepare for noinstr sections 2020-05-19 15:47:21 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm block-5.7-2020-05-09 2020-05-10 11:16:07 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-05-06 20:53:22 -07:00
samples tracing: Fix doc mistakes in trace sample 2020-05-07 13:32:57 -04:00
scripts vmlinux.lds.h: Create section for protection against instrumentation 2020-05-19 15:47:20 +02:00
security selinux/stable-5.7 PR 20200430 2020-04-30 16:35:45 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7-rc4 2020-05-01 11:05:28 -07:00
tools selftests: kvm: fix smm test on SVM 2020-06-01 04:26:04 -04:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: introduce kvm_read_guest_offset_cached() 2020-06-01 04:26:07 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-04-18 13:49:33 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: Add Sedat Dilek (replacement for expired email address) 2020-04-11 09:28:34 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Fixes for an endianness handling bug that prevented mounts on 2020-05-08 10:27:00 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.7-rc5 2020-05-10 15:16:58 -07:00
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.