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authorJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>2016-11-28 23:04:52 +0000
committerJames Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>2017-02-03 15:21:11 +0000
commit1880afd6057f34586919715e8ffe9c5858f4a326 (patch)
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KVM: MIPS/T&E: Add lockless GVA access helpers
Add helpers to allow for lockless direct access to the GVA space, by changing the VCPU mode to READING_SHADOW_PAGE_TABLES for the duration of the access. This allows asynchronous TLB flush requests in future patches to safely trigger either a TLB flush before the direct GVA space access, or a delay until the in-progress lockless direct access is complete. The kvm_trap_emul_gva_lockless_begin() and kvm_trap_emul_gva_lockless_end() helpers take care of guarding the direct GVA accesses, and kvm_trap_emul_gva_fault() tries to handle a uaccess fault resulting from a flush having taken place. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
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