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authorRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>2025-03-03 14:15:39 +0000
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-03-17 00:05:35 -0700
commitc36549ff8d8423fbf1a0c5bbd72be4f902d74700 (patch)
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Revert "x86/xen: allow nesting of same lazy mode"
Commit 49147beb0ccb ("x86/xen: allow nesting of same lazy mode") was added as a solution for a core-mm code change where arch_[enter|leave]_lazy_mmu_mode() started to be called in a nested manner; see commit bcc6cc832573 ("mm: add default definition of set_ptes()"). However, now that we have fixed the API to avoid nesting, we no longer need this capability in the x86 implementation. Additionally, from code review, I don't believe the fix was ever robust in the case of preemption occurring while in the nested lazy mode. The implementation usually deals with preemption by calling arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() from xen_start_context_switch() for the outgoing task if we are in the lazy mmu mode. Then in xen_end_context_switch(), it restarts the lazy mode by calling arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() for an incoming task that was in the lazy mode when it was switched out. But arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() will only unwind a single level of nesting. If we are in the double nest, then it's not fully unwound and per-cpu variables are left in a bad state. So the correct solution is to remove the possibility of nesting from the higher level (which has now been done) and remove this x86-specific solution. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303141542.3371656-6-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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