The quilt patch titled
Subject: Revert "x86/xen: allow nesting of same lazy mode"
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
revert-x86-xen-allow-nesting-of-same-lazy-mode.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Revert "x86/xen: allow nesting of same lazy mode"
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 14:15:39 +0000
Commit 49147beb0ccb ("x86/xen: allow nesting of same lazy mode") was added
as a solution for a core-mm code change where
arch_[enter|leave]_lazy_mmu_mode() started to be called in a nested
manner; see commit bcc6cc832573 ("mm: add default definition of
set_ptes()").
However, now that we have fixed the API to avoid nesting, we no longer
need this capability in the x86 implementation.
Additionally, from code review, I don't believe the fix was ever robust in
the case of preemption occurring while in the nested lazy mode. The
implementation usually deals with preemption by calling
arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() from xen_start_context_switch() for the
outgoing task if we are in the lazy mmu mode. Then in
xen_end_context_switch(), it restarts the lazy mode by calling
arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() for an incoming task that was in the lazy mode
when it was switched out. But arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() will only unwind
a single level of nesting. If we are in the double nest, then it's not
fully unwound and per-cpu variables are left in a bad state.
So the correct solution is to remove the possibility of nesting from the
higher level (which has now been done) and remove this x86-specific
solution.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303141542.3371656-6-ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h | 15 ++-------------
arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h~revert-x86-xen-allow-nesting-of-same-lazy-mode
+++ a/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypervisor.h
@@ -72,18 +72,10 @@ enum xen_lazy_mode {
};
DECLARE_PER_CPU(enum xen_lazy_mode, xen_lazy_mode);
-DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, xen_lazy_nesting);
static inline void enter_lazy(enum xen_lazy_mode mode)
{
- enum xen_lazy_mode old_mode = this_cpu_read(xen_lazy_mode);
-
- if (mode == old_mode) {
- this_cpu_inc(xen_lazy_nesting);
- return;
- }
-
- BUG_ON(old_mode != XEN_LAZY_NONE);
+ BUG_ON(this_cpu_read(xen_lazy_mode) != XEN_LAZY_NONE);
this_cpu_write(xen_lazy_mode, mode);
}
@@ -92,10 +84,7 @@ static inline void leave_lazy(enum xen_l
{
BUG_ON(this_cpu_read(xen_lazy_mode) != mode);
- if (this_cpu_read(xen_lazy_nesting) == 0)
- this_cpu_write(xen_lazy_mode, XEN_LAZY_NONE);
- else
- this_cpu_dec(xen_lazy_nesting);
+ this_cpu_write(xen_lazy_mode, XEN_LAZY_NONE);
}
enum xen_lazy_mode xen_get_lazy_mode(void);
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c~revert-x86-xen-allow-nesting-of-same-lazy-mode
+++ a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ struct tls_descs {
};
DEFINE_PER_CPU(enum xen_lazy_mode, xen_lazy_mode) = XEN_LAZY_NONE;
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, xen_lazy_nesting);
enum xen_lazy_mode xen_get_lazy_mode(void)
{
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx are
mm-use-ptep_get-instead-of-directly-dereferencing-pte_t.patch
