Friendly ping :)
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Thanks,
Oliver
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 12:28 PM Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The arm64 kernel doesn't yet support the full generic entry
> infrastructure. That being said, KVM/arm64 doesn't properly handle
> TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME and could pick this up by switching to the generic
> guest entry infrasturture.
>
> Patch 1 adds a missing vCPU stat to ARM64 to record the number of signal
> exits to userspace.
>
> Patch 2 unhitches entry-kvm from entry-generic, as ARM64 doesn't
> currently support the generic infrastructure.
>
> Patch 3 replaces the open-coded entry handling with the generic xfer
> function.
>
> This series was tested on an Ampere Mt. Jade reference system. The
> series cleanly applies to kvm/queue (note that this is deliberate as the
> generic kvm stats patches have not yet propagated to kvm-arm/queue) at
> the following commit:
>
> 8ad5e63649ff ("KVM: Don't take mmu_lock for range invalidation unless necessary")
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - Address Jing's comment
> - Carry Jing's r-b tag
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - Roll all exit conditions into kvm_vcpu_exit_request() (Marc)
> - Avoid needlessly checking for work twice (Marc)
>
> v1: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729195632.489978-1-oupton@xxxxxxxxxx
> v2: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729220916.1672875-1-oupton@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Oliver Upton (3):
> KVM: arm64: Record number of signal exits as a vCPU stat
> entry: KVM: Allow use of generic KVM entry w/o full generic support
> KVM: arm64: Use generic KVM xfer to guest work function
>
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++------------
> arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 1 +
> include/linux/entry-kvm.h | 6 ++-
> 5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
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