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Hollis Blanchard
7874980922 KVM: ensure that memslot userspace addresses are page-aligned
Bad page translation and silent guest failure ensue if the userspace address is
not page-aligned.  I hit this problem using large (host) pages with qemu,
because qemu currently has a hardcoded 4096-byte alignment for guest memory
allocations.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:52:24 +02:00
Izik Eidus
2843099fee KVM: MMU: Fix aliased gfns treated as unaliased
Some areas of kvm x86 mmu are using gfn offset inside a slot without
unaliasing the gfn first.  This patch makes sure that the gfn will be
unaliased and add gfn_to_memslot_unaliased() to save the calculating
of the gfn unaliasing in case we have it unaliased already.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:51:50 +02:00
Sheng Yang
6eb55818c0 KVM: Enable Function Level Reset for assigned device
Ideally, every assigned device should in a clear condition before and after
assignment, so that the former state of device won't affect later work.
Some devices provide a mechanism named Function Level Reset, which is
defined in PCI/PCI-e document. We should execute it before and after device
assignment.

(But sadly, the feature is new, and most device on the market now don't
support it. We are considering using D0/D3hot transmit to emulate it later,
but not that elegant and reliable as FLR itself.)

[Update: Reminded by Xiantao, execute FLR after we ensure that the device can
be assigned to the guest.]

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:51:49 +02:00
Sheng Yang
e19e30effa KVM: IRQ ACK notifier should be used with in-kernel irqchip
Also remove unnecessary parameter of unregister irq ack notifier.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-12-31 16:51:47 +02:00
Sheng Yang
5550af4df1 KVM: Fix guest shared interrupt with in-kernel irqchip
Every call of kvm_set_irq() should offer an irq_source_id, which is
allocated by kvm_request_irq_source_id(). Based on irq_source_id, we
identify the irq source and implement logical OR for shared level
interrupts.

The allocated irq_source_id can be freed by kvm_free_irq_source_id().

Currently, we support at most sizeof(unsigned long) different irq sources.

[Amit: - rebase to kvm.git HEAD
       - move definition of KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID to common file
       - move kvm_request_irq_source_id to the update_irq ioctl]

[Xiantao: - Add kvm/ia64 stuff and make it work for kvm/ia64 guests]

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-28 14:21:34 +02:00
Xiantao Zhang
c77fb9dc7a KVM: Change is_mmio_pfn to kvm_is_mmio_pfn, and make it common for all archs
Add a kvm_ prefix to avoid polluting kernel's name space.

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:34 +02:00
Xiantao Zhang
8a98f6648a KVM: Move device assignment logic to common code
To share with other archs, this patch moves device assignment
logic to common parts.

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:33 +02:00
Weidong Han
e5fcfc821a KVM: Device Assignment: Map mmio pages into VT-d page table
Assigned device could DMA to mmio pages, so also need to map mmio pages
into VT-d page table.

Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:29 +02:00
Weidong Han
271b05281f KVM: Remove useless intel-iommu.h header inclusion
Currently "#include <linux/intel-iommu.h>" is not needed in
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c.

Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:11 +02:00
Glauber Costa
7d8fece678 KVM: Don't destroy vcpu in case vcpu_setup fails
One of vcpu_setup responsibilities is to do mmu initialization.
However, in case we fail in kvm_arch_vcpu_reset, before we get the
chance to init mmu. OTOH, vcpu_destroy will attempt to destroy mmu,
triggering a bug. Keeping track of whether or not mmu is initialized
would unnecessarily complicate things. Rather, we just make return,
making sure any needed uninitialization is done before we return, in
case we fail.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:10 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
4c2155ce81 KVM: switch to get_user_pages_fast
Convert gfn_to_pfn to use get_user_pages_fast, which can do lockless
pagetable lookups on x86. Kernel compilation on 4-way guest is 3.7%
faster on VMX.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:06 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
777b3f49d2 KVM: opencode gfn_to_page in kvm_vm_fault
kvm_vm_fault is invoked with mmap_sem held in read mode. Since gfn_to_page
will be converted to get_user_pages_fast, which requires this lock NOT
to be held, switch to opencoded get_user_pages.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:05 +02:00
Ben-Ami Yassour
62c476c7c7 KVM: Device Assignment with VT-d
Based on a patch by: Kay, Allen M <allen.m.kay@intel.com>

This patch enables PCI device assignment based on VT-d support.
When a device is assigned to the guest, the guest memory is pinned and
the mapping is updated in the VT-d IOMMU.

[Amit: Expose KVM_CAP_IOMMU so we can check if an IOMMU is present
and also control enable/disable from userspace]

Signed-off-by: Kay, Allen M <allen.m.kay@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben-Ami Yassour <benami@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>

Acked-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 14:25:04 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
d76901750a KVM: x86: do not execute halted vcpus
Offline or uninitialized vcpu's can be executed if requested to perform
userspace work.

Follow Avi's suggestion to handle halted vcpu's in the main loop,
simplifying kvm_emulate_halt(). Introduce a new vcpu->requests bit to
indicate events that promote state from halted to running.

Also standardize vcpu wake sites.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti <at> redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:26 +02:00
Avi Kivity
d657c7335b KVM: Don't call get_user_pages(.force = 1)
This is esoteric and only needed to break COW on MAP_SHARED mappings.  Since
KVM no longer does these sorts of mappings, breaking COW on them is no longer
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:23 +02:00
Dave Hansen
fa3795a730 KVM: Reduce stack usage in kvm_vcpu_ioctl()
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:18 +02:00
Ben-Ami Yassour
cbff90a7ca KVM: direct mmio pfn check
Userspace may specify memory slots that are backed by mmio pages rather than
normal RAM.  In some cases it is not enough to identify these mmio pages
by pfn_valid().  This patch adds checking the PageReserved as well.

Signed-off-by: Ben-Ami Yassour <benami@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-10-15 10:15:17 +02:00
Andrea Arcangeli
e930bffe95 KVM: Synchronize guest physical memory map to host virtual memory map
Synchronize changes to host virtual addresses which are part of
a KVM memory slot to the KVM shadow mmu.  This allows pte operations
like swapping, page migration, and madvise() to transparently work
with KVM.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-29 12:33:53 +03:00
Andrea Arcangeli
604b38ac03 KVM: Allow browsing memslots with mmu_lock
This allows reading memslots with only the mmu_lock hold for mmu
notifiers that runs in atomic context and with mmu_lock held.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-29 12:33:50 +03:00
Ulrich Drepper
7d9dbca342 flag parameters: anon_inode_getfd extension
This patch just extends the anon_inode_getfd interface to take an additional
parameter with a flag value.  The flag value is passed on to
get_unused_fd_flags in anticipation for a use with the O_CLOEXEC flag.

No actual semantic changes here, the changed callers all pass 0 for now.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: KVM fix]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:27 -07:00
Avi Kivity
597a5f551e KVM: Adjust smp_call_function_mask() callers to new requirements
smp_call_function_mask() now complains when called in a preemptible context;
adjust its callers accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 14:29:54 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
34d4cb8fca KVM: MMU: nuke shadowed pgtable pages and ptes on memslot destruction
Flush the shadow mmu before removing regions to avoid stale entries.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:40 +03:00
Carsten Otte
eff0114ac3 KVM: s390: dont allocate dirty bitmap
This patch #ifdefs the bitmap array for dirty tracking. We don't have dirty
tracking on s390 today, and we'd love to use our storage keys to store the
dirty information for migration. Therefore, we won't need this array at all,
and due to our limited amount of vmalloc space this limits the amount of guests
we can run.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:36 +03:00
Laurent Vivier
5f94c1741b KVM: Add coalesced MMIO support (common part)
This patch adds all needed structures to coalesce MMIOs.
Until an architecture uses it, it is not compiled.

Coalesced MMIO introduces two ioctl() to define where are the MMIO zones that
can be coalesced:

- KVM_REGISTER_COALESCED_MMIO registers a coalesced MMIO zone.
  It requests one parameter (struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_zone) which defines
  a memory area where MMIOs can be coalesced until the next switch to
  user space. The maximum number of MMIO zones is KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_ZONE_MAX.

- KVM_UNREGISTER_COALESCED_MMIO cancels all registered zones inside
  the given bounds (bounds are also given by struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_zone).

The userspace client can check kernel coalesced MMIO availability by asking
ioctl(KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION) for the KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO capability.
The ioctl() call to KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO will return 0 if not supported,
or the page offset where will be stored the ring buffer.
The page offset depends on the architecture.

After an ioctl(KVM_RUN), the first page of the KVM memory mapped points to
a kvm_run structure. The offset given by KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO is
an offset to the coalesced MMIO ring expressed in PAGE_SIZE relatively
to the address of the start of th kvm_run structure. The MMIO ring buffer
is defined by the structure kvm_coalesced_mmio_ring.

[akio: fix oops during guest shutdown]

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:31 +03:00
Laurent Vivier
92760499d0 KVM: kvm_io_device: extend in_range() to manage len and write attribute
Modify member in_range() of structure kvm_io_device to pass length and the type
of the I/O (write or read).

This modification allows to use kvm_io_device with coalesced MMIO.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:30 +03:00
Avi Kivity
7cc8883074 KVM: Remove decache_vcpus_on_cpu() and related callbacks
Obsoleted by the vmx-specific per-cpu list.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity
4ecac3fd6d KVM: Handle virtualization instruction #UD faults during reboot
KVM turns off hardware virtualization extensions during reboot, in order
to disassociate the memory used by the virtualization extensions from the
processor, and in order to have the system in a consistent state.
Unfortunately virtual machines may still be running while this goes on,
and once virtualization extensions are turned off, any virtulization
instruction will #UD on execution.

Fix by adding an exception handler to virtualization instructions; if we get
an exception during reboot, we simply spin waiting for the reset to complete.
If it's a true exception, BUG() so we can have our stack trace.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:41:43 +03:00
Anthony Liguori
2e2e3738af KVM: Handle vma regions with no backing page
This patch allows VMAs that contain no backing page to be used for guest
memory.  This is useful for assigning mmio regions to a guest.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:40:49 +03:00
Christian Borntraeger
1e1c65e03e KVM: remove long -> void *user -> long cast
kvm_dev_ioctl casts the arg value to void __user *, just to recast it
again to long. This seems unnecessary.

According to objdump the binary code on x86 is unchanged by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:40:46 +03:00
Jens Axboe
15c8b6c1aa on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:24:38 +02:00
Jens Axboe
8691e5a8f6 smp_call_function: get rid of the unused nonatomic/retry argument
It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry
interchangably. So get rid of it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:24:35 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
e5c239cfd5 KVM: Fix kvm_vcpu_block() task state race
There's still a race in kvm_vcpu_block(), if a wake_up_interruptible()
call happens before the task state is set to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE:

CPU0                            CPU1

kvm_vcpu_block

add_wait_queue

kvm_cpu_has_interrupt = 0
                                set interrupt
                                if (waitqueue_active())
                                        wake_up_interruptible()

kvm_cpu_has_pending_timer
kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable
signal_pending

set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)
schedule()

Can be fixed by using prepare_to_wait() which sets the task state before
testing for the wait condition.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-05-18 14:37:12 +03:00
Sheng Yang
0d15029895 KVM: Export necessary function for EPT
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-05-04 14:44:40 +03:00
Al Viro
2030a42cec [PATCH] sanitize anon_inode_getfd()
a) none of the callers even looks at inode or file returned by anon_inode_getfd()
b) any caller that would try to look at those would be racy, since by the time
it returns we might have raced with close() from another thread and that
file would be pining for fjords.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-01 13:08:50 -04:00
Al Viro
66c0b394f0 KVM: kill file->f_count abuse in kvm
Use kvm own refcounting instead of playing with ->filp->f_count.
That will allow to get rid of a lot of crap in anon_inode_getfd() and
kill a race in kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm() (file might have been closed
immediately by another thread, so ->filp might point to already freed
struct file when we get around to setting it).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 18:21:46 +03:00
Hollis Blanchard
76f7c87902 KVM: Rename debugfs_dir to kvm_debugfs_dir
It's a globally exported symbol now.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 18:21:36 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
62d9f0dbc9 KVM: add ioctls to save/store mpstate
So userspace can save/restore the mpstate during migration.

[avi: export the #define constants describing the value]
[christian: add s390 stubs]
[avi: ditto for ia64]

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 18:21:16 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
3d80840d96 KVM: hlt emulation should take in-kernel APIC/PIT timers into account
Timers that fire between guest hlt and vcpu_block's add_wait_queue() are
ignored, possibly resulting in hangs.

Also make sure that atomic_inc and waitqueue_active tests happen in the
specified order, otherwise the following race is open:

CPU0                                        CPU1
                                            if (waitqueue_active(wq))
add_wait_queue()
if (!atomic_read(pit_timer->pending))
    schedule()
                                            atomic_inc(pit_timer->pending)

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:04:11 +03:00
Feng(Eric) Liu
d4c9ff2d1b KVM: Add kvm trace userspace interface
This interface allows user a space application to read the trace of kvm
related events through relayfs.

Signed-off-by: Feng (Eric) Liu <eric.e.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:01:22 +03:00
Anthony Liguori
35149e2129 KVM: MMU: Don't assume struct page for x86
This patch introduces a gfn_to_pfn() function and corresponding functions like
kvm_release_pfn_dirty().  Using these new functions, we can modify the x86
MMU to no longer assume that it can always get a struct page for any given gfn.

We don't want to eliminate gfn_to_page() entirely because a number of places
assume they can do gfn_to_page() and then kmap() the results.  When we support
IO memory, gfn_to_page() will fail for IO pages although gfn_to_pfn() will
succeed.

This does not implement support for avoiding reference counting for reserved
RAM or for IO memory.  However, it should make those things pretty straight
forward.

Since we're only introducing new common symbols, I don't think it will break
the non-x86 architectures but I haven't tested those.  I've tested Intel,
AMD, NPT, and hugetlbfs with Windows and Linux guests.

[avi: fix overflow when shifting left pfns by adding casts]

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:01:15 +03:00
Izik Eidus
d39f13b0da KVM: add vm refcounting
the main purpose of adding this functions is the abilaty to release the
spinlock that protect the kvm list while still be able to do operations
on a specific kvm in a safe way.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 12:00:56 +03:00
Xiantao Zhang
3e4bb3ac9e KVM: Use kzalloc to avoid allocating kvm_regs from kernel stack
Since the size of kvm_regs is too big to allocate from kernel stack on ia64,
use kzalloc to allocate it.

Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:26 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
05da45583d KVM: MMU: large page support
Create large pages mappings if the guest PTE's are marked as such and
the underlying memory is hugetlbfs backed.  If the largepage contains
write-protected pages, a large pte is not used.

Gives a consistent 2% improvement for data copies on ram mounted
filesystem, without NPT/EPT.

Anthony measures a 4% improvement on 4-way kernbench, with NPT.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:25 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti
2e53d63acb KVM: MMU: ignore zapped root pagetables
Mark zapped root pagetables as invalid and ignore such pages during lookup.

This is a problem with the cr3-target feature, where a zapped root table fools
the faulting code into creating a read-only mapping. The result is a lockup
if the instruction can't be emulated.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:25 +03:00
Andrea Arcangeli
0aac03f07b KVM: Disable pagefaults during copy_from_user_inatomic()
With CONFIG_PREEMPT=n, this is needed in order to disable the fault-in
code from sleeping.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:18 +03:00
Avi Kivity
adb1ff4675 KVM: Limit vcpu mmap size to one page on non-x86
The second page is only needed on archs that support pio.

Noted by Carsten Otte.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:17 +03:00
Avi Kivity
09566765ef KVM: Only x86 has pio
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:15 +03:00
Jan Engelhardt
5c5027425e KVM: constify function pointer tables
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:15 +03:00
Izik Eidus
72dc67a696 KVM: remove the usage of the mmap_sem for the protection of the memory slots.
This patch replaces the mmap_sem lock for the memory slots with a new
kvm private lock, it is needed beacuse untill now there were cases where
kvm accesses user memory while holding the mmap semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-03-04 15:19:40 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
8b88b0998e libfs: allow error return from simple attributes
Sometimes simple attributes might need to return an error, e.g. for
acquiring a mutex interruptibly.  In fact we have that situation in
spufs already which is the original user of the simple attributes.  This
patch merged the temporarily forked attributes in spufs back into the
main ones and allows to return errors.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:34 -08:00