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Gavin Shan c57351a75d KVM: Push dirty information unconditionally to backup bitmap
In mark_page_dirty_in_slot(), we bail out when no running vcpu exists
and a running vcpu context is strictly required by architecture. It may
cause backwards compatible issue. Currently, saving vgic/its tables is
the only known case where no running vcpu context is expected. We may
have other unknown cases where no running vcpu context exists and it's
reported by the warning message and we bail out without pushing the
dirty information to the backup bitmap. For this, the application is
going to enable the backup bitmap for the unknown cases. However, the
dirty information can't be pushed to the backup bitmap even though the
backup bitmap is enabled for those unknown cases in the application,
until the unknown cases are added to the allowed list of non-running
vcpu context with extra code changes to the host kernel.

In order to make the new application, where the backup bitmap has been
enabled, to work with the unchanged host, we continue to push the dirty
information to the backup bitmap instead of bailing out early. With the
added check on 'memslot->dirty_bitmap' to mark_page_dirty_in_slot(), the
kernel crash is avoided silently by the combined conditions: no running
vcpu context, kvm_arch_allow_write_without_running_vcpu() returns 'true',
and the backup bitmap (KVM_CAP_DIRTY_LOG_RING_WITH_BITMAP) isn't enabled
yet.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221112094322.21911-1-gshan@redhat.com
2022-11-12 11:20:59 +00:00
arch KVM: arm64: Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking 2022-11-10 13:11:58 +00:00
block block-6.1-2022-10-28 2022-10-29 18:06:52 -07:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible 2022-10-11 17:42:58 -06:00
Documentation KVM: arm64: Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking 2022-11-10 13:11:58 +00:00
drivers fbdev fixes for kernel 6.1-rc3: 2022-10-30 11:31:14 -07:00
fs 3 cifs/smb3 fixes (also for stable) 2022-10-30 09:40:04 -07:00
include KVM: arm64: Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking 2022-11-10 13:11:58 +00:00
init init: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "satify" -> "satisfy" 2022-10-20 21:27:22 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: unlock if __io_run_local_work locked inside 2022-10-27 09:52:12 -06:00
ipc ipc/msg.c: fix percpu_counter use after free 2022-10-28 13:37:22 -07:00
kernel - Rename a perf memory level event define to denote it is of CXL type 2022-10-30 09:49:18 -07:00
lib 23 hotfixes. 2022-10-29 17:49:33 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mmap: fix remap_file_pages() regression 2022-10-28 13:37:23 -07:00
net kcm: do not sense pfmemalloc status in kcm_sendpage() 2022-10-27 11:25:13 -07:00
rust Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
samples VFIO updates for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-12 14:46:48 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.1 2022-10-16 11:12:22 -07:00
security selinux: enable use of both GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC in convert_context() 2022-10-19 09:55:53 -04:00
sound ALSA: aoa: Fix I2S device accounting 2022-10-27 08:53:08 +02:00
tools KVM: selftests: Automate choosing dirty ring size in dirty_log_test 2022-11-10 13:11:58 +00:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM: Push dirty information unconditionally to backup bitmap 2022-11-12 11:20:59 +00:00
.clang-format PCI/DOE: Add DOE mailbox support functions 2022-07-19 15:38:04 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: update email for Qais Yousef 2022-10-20 21:27:21 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS USB fixes for 6.1-rc3 2022-10-30 10:35:07 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.1-rc3 2022-10-30 15:19:28 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.