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The current implementation of the dirty ring has an implicit requirement that stores to the dirty ring from userspace must be: - be ordered with one another - visible from another CPU executing a ring reset While these implicit requirements work well for x86 (and any other TSO-like architecture), they do not work for more relaxed architectures such as arm64 where stores to different addresses can be freely reordered, and loads from these addresses not observing writes from another CPU unless the required barriers (or acquire/release semantics) are used. In order to start fixing this, upgrade the ring reset accesses: - the kvm_dirty_gfn_harvested() helper now uses acquire semantics so it is ordered after all previous writes, including that from userspace - the kvm_dirty_gfn_set_invalid() helper now uses release semantics so that the next_slot and next_offset reads don't drift past the entry invalidation This is only a partial fix as the userspace side also need upgrading. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926145120.27974-2-maz@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.