KVM: x86/mmu: Try to avoid crashing KVM if a MMU memory cache is empty
Attempt to allocate a new object instead of crashing KVM (and likely the kernel) if a memory cache is unexpectedly empty. Use GFP_ATOMIC for the allocation as the caches are used while holding mmu_lock. The immediate BUG_ON() makes the code unnecessarily explosive and led to confusing minimums being used in the past, e.g. allocating 4 objects where 1 would suffice. Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Message-Id: <20200703023545.8771-6-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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