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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2022-02-09 11:18:54 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2022-03-10 16:51:50 -0600 |
| commit | 7c5d8fa6fbb12a3f0eefe8762bfede508e147cb3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0abadafb76c2719b1632ae452a228909669edef3 /kernel/entry | |
| parent | 8ba62d37949e248c698c26e0d82d72fda5d33ebf (diff) | |
| download | linux-7c5d8fa6fbb12a3f0eefe8762bfede508e147cb3.tar.gz | |
task_work: Decouple TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and task_work
There are a small handful of reasons besides pending signals that the kernel might want to break out of interruptible sleeps. The flag TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and the helpers that set and clear TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL provide that the infrastructure for breaking out of interruptible sleeps and entering the return to user space slow path for those cases. Expand tracehook_notify_signal inline in it's callers and remove it, which makes clear that TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and task_work are separate concepts. Update the comment on set_notify_signal to more accurately describe it's purpose. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-9-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/entry')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/entry/kvm.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/entry/kvm.c b/kernel/entry/kvm.c index cabf36a489e4..3ab5f98988c3 100644 --- a/kernel/entry/kvm.c +++ b/kernel/entry/kvm.c @@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ static int xfer_to_guest_mode_work(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long ti_work) do { int ret; - if (ti_work & (_TIF_SIGPENDING | _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)) - tracehook_notify_signal(); + if (ti_work & (_TIF_SIGPENDING | _TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL)) { + clear_notify_signal(); + if (task_work_pending(current)) + task_work_run(); + } if (ti_work & _TIF_SIGPENDING) { kvm_handle_signal_exit(vcpu); |