On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 04:51:50PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 05:56:32PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > If async page fault is received by idle task or when preemp_count is
> > not zero guest cannot reschedule, so do sti; hlt and wait for page to be
> > ready. vcpu can still process interrupts while it waits for the page to
> > be ready.
> >
> > Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> > index 36fb3e4..f73946f 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> > @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
> > #include <asm/cpu.h>
> > #include <asm/traps.h>
> > #include <asm/desc.h>
> > +#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
> >
> > #define MMU_QUEUE_SIZE 1024
> >
> > @@ -78,6 +79,8 @@ struct kvm_task_sleep_node {
> > wait_queue_head_t wq;
> > u32 token;
> > int cpu;
> > + bool halted;
> > + struct mm_struct *mm;
> > };
> >
> > static struct kvm_task_sleep_head {
> > @@ -106,6 +109,11 @@ void kvm_async_pf_task_wait(u32 token)
> > struct kvm_task_sleep_head *b = &async_pf_sleepers[key];
> > struct kvm_task_sleep_node n, *e;
> > DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> > + int cpu, idle;
> > +
> > + cpu = get_cpu();
> > + idle = idle_cpu(cpu);
> > + put_cpu();
> >
> > spin_lock(&b->lock);
> > e = _find_apf_task(b, token);
> > @@ -119,19 +127,33 @@ void kvm_async_pf_task_wait(u32 token)
> >
> > n.token = token;
> > n.cpu = smp_processor_id();
> > + n.mm = current->active_mm;
> > + n.halted = idle || preempt_count() > 1;
> > + atomic_inc(&n.mm->mm_count);
>
> Can't see why this reference is needed.
I thought that if kernel thread does fault on behalf of some
process mm can go away while kernel thread is sleeping. But it looks
like kernel thread increase reference to mm it runs with by himself, so
may be this is redundant (but not harmful).
--
Gleb.
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