A VMM may send a non-fatal signal to its threads, including vCPU tasks,
at any time, and thus may signal vCPU tasks during KVM_RUN. If a vCPU
task receives the signal while its trying to spawn the huge page recovery
vhost task, then KVM_RUN will fail due to copy_process() returning
-ERESTARTNOINTR.
Rework call_once() to mark the call complete if and only if the called
function succeeds, and plumb the function's true error code back to the
call_once() invoker. This provides userspace with the correct, non-fatal
error code so that the VMM doesn't terminate the VM on -ENOMEM, and allows
subsequent KVM_RUN a succeed by virtue of retrying creation of the NX huge
page task.
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[implemented the kvm user side]
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20250227230631.303431-3-kbusch@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Some libraries want to ensure they are single threaded before forking,
so making the kernel's kvm huge page recovery process a vhost task of
the user process breaks those. The minijail library used by crosvm is
one such affected application.
Defer the task to after the first VM_RUN call, which occurs after the
parent process has forked all its jailed processes. This needs to happen
only once for the kvm instance, so introduce some general-purpose
infrastructure for that, too. It's similar in concept to pthread_once;
except it is actually usable, because the callback takes a parameter.
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20250123153543.2769928-1-kbusch@meta.com>
[Move call_once API to include/linux. - Paolo]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d96c77bd4e ("KVM: x86: switch hugepage recovery thread to vhost_task")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
