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    KVM: track pid for VCPU only on KVM_RUN ioctl · 7a72f7a1
    Christian Borntraeger authored
    We currently track the pid of the task that runs the VCPU in vcpu_load.
    If a yield to that VCPU is triggered while the PID of the wrong thread
    is active, the wrong thread might receive a yield, but this will most
    likely not help the executing thread at all.  Instead, if we only track
    the pid on the KVM_RUN ioctl, there are two possibilities:
    
    1) the thread that did a non-KVM_RUN ioctl is holding a mutex that
    the VCPU thread is waiting for.  In this case, the VCPU thread is not
    runnable, but we also do not do a wrong yield.
    
    2) the thread that did a non-KVM_RUN ioctl is sleeping, or doing
    something that does not block the VCPU thread.  In this case, the
    VCPU thread can receive the directed yield correctly.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
    CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    CC: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    CC: Michael Mueller <mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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