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| author | Mingwei Zhang | 2022-08-07 05:21:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini | 2022-08-10 15:08:26 -0400 |
| commit | 1685c0f32554a7f35962061d17155c58454f1cd2 (patch) | |
| tree | 51a01056689617dd0fb358201c58b05b6d1b4d88 /include/trace | |
| parent | c036899136355758dcd88878145036ab4d9c1f26 (diff) | |
KVM: x86/mmu: rename trace function name for asynchronous page fault
Rename the tracepoint function from trace_kvm_async_pf_doublefault() to
trace_kvm_async_pf_repeated_fault() to make it clear, since double fault
has nothing to do with this trace function.
Asynchronous Page Fault (APF) is an artifact generated by KVM when it
cannot find a physical page to satisfy an EPT violation. KVM uses APF to
tell the guest OS to do something else such as scheduling other guest
processes to make forward progress. However, when another guest process
also touches a previously APFed page, KVM halts the vCPU instead of
generating a repeated APF to avoid wasting cycles.
Double fault (#DF) clearly has a different meaning and a different
consequence when triggered. #DF requires two nested contributory exceptions
instead of two page faults faulting at the same address. A prevous bug on
APF indicates that it may trigger a double fault in the guest [1] and
clearly this trace function has nothing to do with it. So rename this
function should be a valid choice.
No functional change intended.
[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg214957.html
Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220807052141.69186-1-mizhang@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/trace')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/trace/events/kvm.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/trace/events/kvm.h b/include/trace/events/kvm.h index 37e1e1a2d67d..3bd31ea23fee 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/kvm.h +++ b/include/trace/events/kvm.h @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(kvm_async_get_page_class, kvm_try_async_get_page, TP_ARGS(gva, gfn) ); -DEFINE_EVENT(kvm_async_get_page_class, kvm_async_pf_doublefault, +DEFINE_EVENT(kvm_async_get_page_class, kvm_async_pf_repeated_fault, TP_PROTO(u64 gva, u64 gfn), |