Revision 40fde70d0df993d1a652d6cc69f8b4e967656170 authored by Bharat Bhushan on 07 August 2013, 10:03:46 UTC, committed by Paolo Bonzini on 10 October 2013, 09:40:08 UTC
When the MM code is invalidating a range of pages, it calls the KVM
kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() notifier function, which calls
kvm_unmap_hva_range(), which arranges to flush all the TLBs for guest pages.
However, the Linux PTEs for the range being flushed are still valid at
that point.  We are not supposed to establish any new references to pages
in the range until the ...range_end() notifier gets called.
The PPC-specific KVM code doesn't get any explicit notification of that;
instead, we are supposed to use mmu_notifier_retry() to test whether we
are or have been inside a range flush notifier pair while we have been
referencing a page.

This patch calls the mmu_notifier_retry() while mapping the guest
page to ensure we are not referencing a page when in range invalidation.

This call is inside a region locked with kvm->mmu_lock, which is the
same lock that is called by the KVM MMU notifier functions, thus
ensuring that no new notification can proceed while we are in the
locked region.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
[Backported to 3.12 - Paolo]
Reviewed-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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