Thread (58 messages) 58 messages, 7 authors, 2025-09-15

Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] x86/xen: support nested lazy_mmu sections (again)

From: Jürgen Groß <jgross@suse.com>
Date: 2025-09-09 09:42:05
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, lkml, sparclinux, xen-devel

On 08.09.25 09:39, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
Commit 49147beb0ccb ("x86/xen: allow nesting of same lazy mode")
originally introduced support for nested lazy sections (LAZY_MMU and
LAZY_CPU). It later got reverted by commit c36549ff8d84 as its
implementation turned out to be intolerant to preemption.

Now that the lazy_mmu API allows enter() to pass through a state to
the matching leave() call, we can support nesting again for the
LAZY_MMU mode in a preemption-safe manner. If xen_enter_lazy_mmu() is
called inside an active lazy_mmu section, xen_lazy_mode will already
be set to XEN_LAZY_MMU and we can then return LAZY_MMU_NESTED to
instruct the matching xen_leave_lazy_mmu() call to leave
xen_lazy_mode unchanged.

The only effect of this patch is to ensure that xen_lazy_mode
remains set to XEN_LAZY_MMU until the outermost lazy_mmu section
ends. xen_leave_lazy_mmu() still calls xen_mc_flush()
unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen

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