mm/mmu_notifiers: ensure range_end() is paired with range_start()
If one or more notifiers fails .invalidate_range_start(), invoke .invalidate_range_end() for "all" notifiers. If there are multiple notifiers, those that did not fail are expecting _start() and _end() to be paired, e.g. KVM's mmu_notifier_count would become imbalanced. Disallow notifiers that can fail _start() from implementing _end() so that it's unnecessary to either track which notifiers rejected _start(), or had already succeeded prior to a failed _start(). Note, the existing behavior of calling _start() on all notifiers even after a previous notifier failed _start() was an unintented "feature". Make it canon now that the behavior is depended on for correctness. As of today, the bug is likely benign: 1. The only caller of the non-blocking notifier is OOM kill. 2. The only notifiers that can fail _start() are the i915 and Nouveau drivers. 3. The only notifiers that utilize _end() are the SGI UV GRU driver and KVM. ...
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