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In order to avoid high dom0 load due to rogue guests sending events at high frequency, block those events in case there was no action needed in dom0 to handle the events. This is done by adding a per-event counter, which set to zero in case an EOI without the XEN_EOI_FLAG_SPURIOUS is received from a backend driver, and incremented when this flag has been set. In case the counter is 2 or higher delay the EOI by 1 << (cnt - 2) jiffies, but not more than 1 second. In order not to waste memory shorten the per-event refcnt to two bytes (it should normally never exceed a value of 2). Add an overflow check to evtchn_get() to make sure the 2 bytes really won't overflow. This is part of XSA-332. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
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.