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SubjectRe: [PATCH stable-4.4.y backport] KVM: arm/arm64: Don't reschedule in unmap_stage2_range()
On 2020-08-24 12:28, Will Deacon wrote:
> Upstream commits fdfe7cbd5880 ("KVM: Pass MMU notifier range flags to
> kvm_unmap_hva_range()") and b5331379bc62 ("KVM: arm64: Only reschedule
> if MMU_NOTIFIER_RANGE_BLOCKABLE is not set") fix a "sleeping from
> invalid
> context" BUG caused by unmap_stage2_range() attempting to reschedule
> when
> called on the OOM path.
>
> Unfortunately, these patches rely on the MMU notifier callback being
> passed knowledge about whether or not blocking is permitted, which was
> introduced in 4.19. Rather than backport this considerable amount of
> infrastructure just for KVM on arm, instead just remove the conditional
> reschedule.
>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.4 only
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 8 --------
> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> index e0267532bd4e..edd392fdc14b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -300,14 +300,6 @@ static void unmap_range(struct kvm *kvm, pgd_t
> *pgdp,
> next = kvm_pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
> if (!pgd_none(*pgd))
> unmap_puds(kvm, pgd, addr, next);
> - /*
> - * If we are dealing with a large range in
> - * stage2 table, release the kvm->mmu_lock
> - * to prevent starvation and lockup detector
> - * warnings.
> - */
> - if (kvm && (next != end))
> - cond_resched_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> } while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
> }

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

M.
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