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Thomas Gleixner 935ace2fb5 entry: Provide infrastructure for work before transitioning to guest mode
Entering a guest is similar to exiting to user space. Pending work like
handling signals, rescheduling, task work etc. needs to be handled before
that.

Provide generic infrastructure to avoid duplication of the same handling
code all over the place.

The transfer to guest mode handling is different from the exit to usermode
handling, e.g. vs. rseq and live patching, so a separate function is used.

The initial list of work items handled is:

    TIF_SIGPENDING, TIF_NEED_RESCHED, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME

Architecture specific TIF flags can be added via defines in the
architecture specific include files.

The calling convention is also different from the syscall/interrupt entry
functions as KVM invokes this from the outer vcpu_run() loop with
interrupts and preemption enabled. To prevent missing a pending work item
it invokes a check for pending TIF work from interrupt disabled code right
before transitioning to guest mode. The lockdep, RCU and tracing state
handling is also done directly around the switch to and from guest mode.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200722220519.833296398@linutronix.de
2020-07-24 15:03:42 +02:00
arch entry: Provide generic syscall entry functionality 2020-07-24 14:59:03 +02:00
block block-5.8-2020-07-10 2020-07-10 09:55:46 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto keys: asymmetric: fix error return code in software_key_query() 2020-07-15 15:49:04 -07:00
Documentation powerpc fixes for 5.8 #7 2020-07-18 10:45:17 -07:00
drivers Two fixes for the interrupt subsystem: 2020-07-19 11:53:08 -07:00
fs More NFS Client Bugfixes for Linux 5.8 2020-07-17 16:37:52 -07:00
include entry: Provide infrastructure for work before transitioning to guest mode 2020-07-24 15:03:42 +02:00
init kbuild: fix CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK(_STATIC) for cross-compilation with Clang 2020-07-02 00:57:45 +09:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel entry: Provide infrastructure for work before transitioning to guest mode 2020-07-24 15:03:42 +02:00
lib RISC-V Fixes for 5.8-rc5 (ideally) 2020-07-11 19:22:46 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm: document warning in move_normal_pmd() and make it warn only once 2020-07-13 11:37:39 -07:00
net xprtrdma: fix incorrect header size calculations 2020-07-15 13:01:01 -04:00
samples samples/vfs: avoid warning in statx override 2020-07-03 16:15:25 -07:00
scripts kbuild: Move -Wtype-limits to W=2 2020-07-09 18:00:56 -07:00
security integrity/ima: switch to using __kernel_read 2020-07-08 08:27:57 +02:00
sound sound fixes for 5.8-rc6 2020-07-17 08:48:19 -07:00
tools Third batch of perf tooling fixes for 5.8: 2020-07-19 12:35:07 -07:00
usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt entry: Provide infrastructure for work before transitioning to guest mode 2020-07-24 15:03:42 +02:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +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: Do not track defconfig from make savedefconfig 2020-07-05 16:15:46 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: update email address for Gerald Schaefer 2020-07-10 15:06:49 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda 2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS regulator: Fixes for v5.8 2020-07-17 10:20:26 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.8-rc6 2020-07-19 15:41:18 -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.