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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2025-10-30 13:09:25 -0700
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2025-11-05 11:03:11 -0800
commit50efc2340a598da4bafa40bc01e18f8cf73a4ae3 (patch)
treedbac6ade99efb8fc181326f759ab2fca00afbcdb /virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
parent0a0da3f92118950862700497bc7917f0fbf6a6e8 (diff)
KVM: Rename kvm_arch_vcpu_async_ioctl() to kvm_arch_vcpu_unlocked_ioctl()
Rename the "async" ioctl API to "unlocked" so that upcoming usage in x86's TDX code doesn't result in a massive misnomer. To avoid having to retry SEAMCALLs, TDX needs to acquire kvm->lock *and* all vcpu->mutex locks, and acquiring all of those locks after/inside the current vCPU's mutex is a non-starter. However, TDX also needs to acquire the vCPU's mutex and load the vCPU, i.e. the handling is very much not async to the vCPU. No functional change intended. Acked-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com> Tested-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com> Tested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030200951.3402865-3-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt/kvm/kvm_main.c')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index b7a0ae2a7b20..b7db1d5f71a8 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -4434,10 +4434,10 @@ static long kvm_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
return r;
/*
- * Some architectures have vcpu ioctls that are asynchronous to vcpu
- * execution; mutex_lock() would break them.
+ * Let arch code handle select vCPU ioctls without holding vcpu->mutex,
+ * e.g. to support ioctls that can run asynchronous to vCPU execution.
*/
- r = kvm_arch_vcpu_async_ioctl(filp, ioctl, arg);
+ r = kvm_arch_vcpu_unlocked_ioctl(filp, ioctl, arg);
if (r != -ENOIOCTLCMD)
return r;