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Use the system worker threads to zap the roots invalidated by the TDP MMU's "fast zap" mechanism, implemented by kvm_tdp_mmu_invalidate_all_roots(). At this point, apart from allowing some parallelism in the zapping of roots, the workqueue is a glorified linked list: work items are added and flushed entirely within a single kvm->slots_lock critical section. However, the workqueue fixes a latent issue where kvm_mmu_zap_all_invalidated_roots() assumes that it owns a reference to all invalid roots; therefore, no one can set the invalid bit outside kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast(). Putting the invalidated roots on a linked list... erm, on a workqueue ensures that tdp_mmu_zap_root_work() only puts back those extra references that kvm_mmu_zap_all_invalidated_roots() had gifted to it. 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.