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Sean Christopherson c13fda237f KVM: Assert that notifier count is elevated in .change_pte() 
In KVM's .change_pte() notification callback, replace the notifier
sequence bump with a WARN_ON assertion that the notifier count is
elevated.  An elevated count provides stricter protections than bumping
the sequence, and the sequence is guarnateed to be bumped before the
count hits zero.

When .change_pte() was added by commit 828502d300 ("ksm: add
mmu_notifier set_pte_at_notify()"), bumping the sequence was necessary
as .change_pte() would be invoked without any surrounding notifications.

However, since commit 6bdb913f0a ("mm: wrap calls to set_pte_at_notify
with invalidate_range_start and invalidate_range_end"), all calls to
.change_pte() are guaranteed to be surrounded by start() and end(), and
so are guaranteed to run with an elevated notifier count.

Note, wrapping .change_pte() with .invalidate_range_{start,end}() is a
bug of sorts, as invalidating the secondary MMU's (KVM's) PTE defeats
the purpose of .change_pte().  Every arch's kvm_set_spte_hva() assumes
.change_pte() is called when the relevant SPTE is present in KVM's MMU,
as the original goal was to accelerate Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) by
updating KVM's SPTEs without requiring a VM-Exit (due to invalidating
the SPTE).  I.e. it means that .change_pte() is effectively dead code
on _all_ architectures.

x86 and MIPS are clearcut nops if the old SPTE is not-present, and that
is guaranteed due to the prior invalidation.  PPC simply unmaps the SPTE,
which again should be a nop due to the invalidation.  arm64 is a bit
murky, but it's also likely a nop because kvm_pgtable_stage2_map() is
called without a cache pointer, which means it will map an entry if and
only if an existing PTE was found.

For now, take advantage of the bug to simplify future consolidation of
KVMs's MMU notifier code.   Doing so will not greatly complicate fixing
.change_pte(), assuming it's even worth fixing.  .change_pte() has been
broken for 8+ years and no one has complained.  Even if there are
KSM+KVM users that care deeply about its performance, the benefits of
avoiding VM-Exits via .change_pte() need to be reevaluated to justify
the added complexity and testing burden.  Ripping out .change_pte()
entirely would be a lot easier.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2021-04-17 08:31:06 -04:00
arch KVM: MIPS: defer flush to generic MMU notifier code 2021-04-17 08:31:05 -04:00
block block: Discard page cache of zone reset target range 2021-03-11 11:49:25 -07:00
certs certs: Replace K{U,G}IDT_INIT() with GLOBAL_ROOT_{U,G}ID 2021-01-21 16:16:10 +00:00
crypto crypto: mips/poly1305 - enable for all MIPS processors 2021-03-08 11:52:17 +01:00
Documentation KVM: introduce KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG2 2021-04-17 08:31:02 -04:00
drivers A set of irqchip updates: 2021-03-14 13:33:33 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-03-14 12:23:34 -07:00
include KVM: constify kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_memslot 2021-04-17 08:31:04 -04:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-03-14 12:23:34 -07:00
ipc fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
kernel prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV kernel stack leak 2021-03-14 14:33:27 -07:00
lib kasan: fix KASAN_STACK dependency for HW_TAGS 2021-03-13 11:27:31 -08:00
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security Revert 95ebabde38 ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities") 2021-03-12 15:27:14 -06:00
sound ALSA: hda/hdmi: Cancel pending works before suspend 2021-03-10 12:52:01 +01:00
tools KVM: selftests: remove redundant semi-colon 2021-04-17 08:31:01 -04:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.12 2021-02-25 10:17:31 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS x86/sgx: Expose SGX architectural definitions to the kernel 2021-04-06 09:43:41 +02:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.