Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Paravirt Scheduling (Dynamic vcpu priority management)

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:39:52 -0700
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 
> > One other issue we need to worry about is that IIUC rseq memory is
> > allocated by the guest/user, not the host kernel. This means it can be
> > swapped out. The code that handles this needs to be able to handle user
> > page faults.  
> 
> This is a non-issue, it will Just Work, same as any other memory that is exposed
> to the guest and can be reclaimed/swapped/migrated..
> 
> If the host swaps out the rseq page, mmu_notifiers will call into KVM and KVM will
> unmap the page from the guest.  If/when the page is accessed by the guest, KVM
> will fault the page back into the host's primary MMU, and then map the new pfn
> into the guest.

My comment is that in the host kernel, the access to this memory needs
to be user page fault safe. You can't call it in atomic context.

-- Steve