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We have had FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE but it was never applied to GUPs. One
issue with it is that not all GUP paths are able to handle signal delivers
besides SIGKILL.
That's not ideal for the GUP users who are actually able to handle these
cases, like KVM.
KVM uses GUP extensively on faulting guest pages, during which we've got
existing infrastructures to retry a page fault at a later time. Allowing
the GUP to be interrupted by generic signals can make KVM related threads
to be more responsive. For examples:
(1) SIGUSR1: which QEMU/KVM uses to deliver an inter-process IPI,
e.g. when the admin issues a vm_stop QMP command, SIGUSR1 can be
generated to kick the vcpus out of kernel context immediately,
(2) SIGINT: which can be used with interactive hypervisor users to stop a
virtual machine with Ctrl-C without any delays/hangs,
(3) SIGTRAP: which grants GDB capability even during page faults that are
stuck for a long time.
Normally hypervisor will be able to receive these signals properly, but not
if we're stuck in a GUP for a long time for whatever reason. It happens
easily with a stucked postcopy migration when e.g. a network temp failure
happens, then some vcpu threads can hang death waiting for the pages. With
the new FOLL_INTERRUPTIBLE, we can allow GUP users like KVM to selectively
enable the ability to trap these signals.
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20221011195809.557016-2-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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.