KVM: s390: pv: avoid stalls when making pages secure
Improve make_secure_pte to avoid stalls when the system is heavily overcommitted. This was especially problematic in kvm_s390_pv_unpack, because of the loop over all pages that needed unpacking. Due to the locks being held, it was not possible to simply replace uv_call with uv_call_sched. A more complex approach was needed, in which uv_call is replaced with __uv_call, which does not loop. When the UVC needs to be executed again, -EAGAIN is returned, and the caller (or its caller) will try again. When -EAGAIN is returned, the path is the same as when the page is in writeback (and the writeback check is also performed, which is harmless). Fixes: 214d9bbc ("s390/mm: provide memory management functions for protected KVM guests") Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210920132502.36111-5-imbrenda@linux.ibm.comSigned-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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