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This allows an exclusive wait_queue_entry to be added at the head of the queue, instead of the tail as normal. Thus, it gets to consume events first without allowing non-exclusive waiters to be woken at all. The (first) intended use is for KVM IRQFD, which currently has inconsistent behaviour depending on whether posted interrupts are available or not. If they are, KVM will bypass the eventfd completely and deliver interrupts directly to the appropriate vCPU. If not, events are delivered through the eventfd and userspace will receive them when polling on the eventfd. By using add_wait_queue_priority(), KVM will be able to consistently consume events within the kernel without accidentally exposing them to userspace when they're supposed to be bypassed. This, in turn, means that userspace doesn't have to jump through hoops to avoid listening on the erroneously noisy eventfd and injecting duplicate interrupts. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Message-Id: <20201027143944.648769-2-dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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README
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.