Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: clean up conditions for asynchronous page fault handling

[Radim KrÄmÃÅ]

2019-06-13 19:22+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> Even when asynchronous page fault is disabled, KVM does not want to pause
> the host if a guest triggers a page fault; instead it will put it into
> an artificial HLT state that allows running other host processes while
> allowing interrupt delivery into the guest.
> 
> However, the way this feature is triggered is a bit confusing.
> First, it is not used for page faults while a nested guest is
> running: but this is not an issue since the artificial halt
> is completely invisible to the guest, either L1 or L2.  Second,
> it is used even if kvm_halt_in_guest() returns true; in this case,
> the guest probably should not pay the additional latency cost of the
> artificial halt, and thus we should handle the page fault in a
> completely synchronous way.
> 
> By introducing a new function kvm_can_deliver_async_pf, this patch
> commonizes the code that chooses whether to deliver an async page fault
> (kvm_arch_async_page_not_present) and the code that chooses whether a
> page fault should be handled synchronously (kvm_can_do_async_pf).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>