KVM: x86/mmu: Zap invalidated roots via asynchronous worker
Use the system worker threads to zap the roots invalidated
by the TDP MMU's "fast zap" mechanism, implemented by
kvm_tdp_mmu_invalidate_all_roots().
At this point, apart from allowing some parallelism in the zapping of
roots, the workqueue is a glorified linked list: work items are added and
flushed entirely within a single kvm->slots_lock critical section. However,
the workqueue fixes a latent issue where kvm_mmu_zap_all_invalidated_roots()
assumes that it owns a reference to all invalid roots; therefore, no
one can set the invalid bit outside kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast(). Putting the
invalidated roots on a linked list... erm, on a workqueue ensures that
tdp_mmu_zap_root_work() only puts back those extra references that
kvm_mmu_zap_all_invalidated_roots() had gifted to it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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