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Even when asynchronous page fault is disabled, KVM does not want to pause the host if a guest triggers a page fault; instead it will put it into an artificial HLT state that allows running other host processes while allowing interrupt delivery into the guest. However, the way this feature is triggered is a bit confusing. First, it is not used for page faults while a nested guest is running: but this is not an issue since the artificial halt is completely invisible to the guest, either L1 or L2. Second, it is used even if kvm_halt_in_guest() returns true; in this case, the guest probably should not pay the additional latency cost of the artificial halt, and thus we should handle the page fault in a completely synchronous way. By introducing a new function kvm_can_deliver_async_pf, this patch commonizes the code that chooses whether to deliver an async page fault (kvm_arch_async_page_not_present) and the code that chooses whether a page fault should be handled synchronously (kvm_can_do_async_pf). Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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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.