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    KVM: x86/xen: allow vcpu_info content to be 'safely' copied · 003d9142
    Paul Durrant authored
    If the guest sets an explicit vcpu_info GPA then, for any of the first 32
    vCPUs, the content of the default vcpu_info in the shared_info page must be
    copied into the new location. Because this copy may race with event
    delivery (which updates the 'evtchn_pending_sel' field in vcpu_info),
    event delivery needs to be deferred until the copy is complete.
    
    Happily there is already a shadow of 'evtchn_pending_sel' in kvm_vcpu_xen
    that is used in atomic context if the vcpu_info PFN cache has been
    invalidated so that the update of vcpu_info can be deferred until the
    cache can be refreshed (on vCPU thread's the way back into guest context).
    
    Use this shadow if the vcpu_info cache has been *deactivated*, so that
    the VMM can safely copy the vcpu_info content and then re-activate the
    cache with the new GPA. To do this, stop considering an inactive vcpu_info
    cache as a hard error in kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast(), and let the existing
    kvm_gpc_check() fail and kick the vCPU (if necessary).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240215152916.1158-21-paul@xen.org
    [sean: add a bit of verbosity to the changelog]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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