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David Matlack 8ca44e88c3 kvm: nVMX: don't flush VMCS12 during VMXOFF or VCPU teardown
According to the Intel SDM, software cannot rely on the current VMCS to be
coherent after a VMXOFF or shutdown. So this is a valid way to handle VMCS12
flushes.

24.11.1 Software Use of Virtual-Machine Control Structures
...
  If a logical processor leaves VMX operation, any VMCSs active on
  that logical processor may be corrupted (see below). To prevent
  such corruption of a VMCS that may be used either after a return
  to VMX operation or on another logical processor, software should
  execute VMCLEAR for that VMCS before executing the VMXOFF instruction
  or removing power from the processor (e.g., as part of a transition
  to the S3 and S4 power states).
...

This fixes a "suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!" warning during
kvm_vm_release() because nested_release_vmcs12() calls
kvm_vcpu_write_guest_page() without holding kvm->srcu.

Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2017-08-02 22:41:03 +02:00
Documentation Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-07-28 12:31:49 -07:00
arch kvm: nVMX: don't flush VMCS12 during VMXOFF or VCPU teardown 2017-08-02 22:41:03 +02:00
block blk-mq: map queues to all present CPUs 2017-07-24 10:01:31 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
drivers DeviceTree fixes for 4.13: 2017-07-28 17:21:41 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs More NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-28 14:44:56 -07:00
include KVM: avoid using rcu_dereference_protected 2017-08-02 22:41:02 +02:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.h: update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-30 11:54:08 -07:00
lib uuid: fix incorrect uuid_equal conversion in test_uuid_test 2017-07-21 09:38:30 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 12:00:42 -07:00
net NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-21 16:26:01 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -07:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.13: 2017-07-28 17:21:41 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.13-rc3 2017-07-27 10:44:28 -07:00
tools tools/kvm_stat: add '-f help' to get the available event list 2017-07-26 19:04:53 +02:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM: avoid using rcu_dereference_protected 2017-08-02 22:41:02 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Properly alphabetize MAINTAINERS file 2017-07-23 16:06:21 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.13-rc3 2017-07-30 12:40:36 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.