linux-stable/arch
Christoffer Dall 7a364bd5db KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid vcpu_load for other vcpu ioctls than KVM_RUN
Calling vcpu_load() registers preempt notifiers for this vcpu and calls
kvm_arch_vcpu_load().  The latter will soon be doing a lot of heavy
lifting on arm/arm64 and will try to do things such as enabling the
virtual timer and setting us up to handle interrupts from the timer
hardware.

Loading state onto hardware registers and enabling hardware to signal
interrupts can be problematic when we're not actually about to run the
VCPU, because it makes it difficult to establish the right context when
handling interrupts from the timer, and it makes the register access
code difficult to reason about.

Luckily, now when we call vcpu_load in each ioctl implementation, we can
simply remove the call from the non-KVM_RUN vcpu ioctls, and our
kvm_arch_vcpu_load() is only used for loading vcpu content to the
physical CPU when we're actually going to run the vcpu.

Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
2018-03-19 10:53:09 +00:00
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alpha locking/xchg/alpha: Fix xchg() and cmpxchg() memory ordering bugs 2018-02-23 08:38:16 +01:00
arc Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-25 16:27:51 -08:00
arm KVM: arm: Enable emulation of the physical timer 2018-02-26 10:48:02 +01:00
arm64 KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid vcpu_load for other vcpu ioctls than KVM_RUN 2018-03-19 10:53:09 +00:00
blackfin unify {de,}mangle_poll(), get rid of kernel-side POLL... 2018-02-11 14:37:22 -08:00
c6x The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly due 2018-02-01 16:56:07 -08:00
cris bug.h: work around GCC PR82365 in BUG() 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
frv unify {de,}mangle_poll(), get rid of kernel-side POLL... 2018-02-11 14:37:22 -08:00
h8300 The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly due 2018-02-01 16:56:07 -08:00
hexagon The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly due 2018-02-01 16:56:07 -08:00
ia64 bug.h: work around GCC PR82365 in BUG() 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
m32r The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly due 2018-02-01 16:56:07 -08:00
m68k bug.h: work around GCC PR82365 in BUG() 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
metag The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly due 2018-02-01 16:56:07 -08:00
microblaze Microblaze patches for 4.16-rc1 2018-02-02 09:48:36 -08:00
mips MIPS fixes for 4.16-rc3 2018-02-23 14:59:29 -08:00
mn10300 The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly due 2018-02-01 16:56:07 -08:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.16-rc1 2018-02-11 13:52:32 -08:00
openrisc The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly due 2018-02-01 16:56:07 -08:00
parisc The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly due 2018-02-01 16:56:07 -08:00
powerpc Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-25 16:27:51 -08:00
riscv Rename sbi_save to parse_dtb to improve code readability 2018-02-20 10:56:26 -08:00
s390 KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
score arch/score/kernel/setup.c: combine two seq_printf() calls into one call in show_cpuinfo() 2018-02-06 18:32:47 -08:00
sh libnvdimm for 4.16 2018-02-06 10:41:33 -08:00
sparc bug.h: work around GCC PR82365 in BUG() 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
tile The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly due 2018-02-01 16:56:07 -08:00
um mconsole_proc(): don't mess with file->f_pos 2018-02-09 19:28:01 -08:00
unicore32 lib: optimize cpumask_next_and() 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
x86 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-25 16:58:55 -08:00
xtensa xtensa: support DMA buffers in high memory 2018-02-16 19:19:54 -08:00
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Kconfig Makefile: introduce CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00