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Paolo Bonzini committed 1dfdb45ec51
KVM: x86: clean up conditions for asynchronous page fault handling Even when asynchronous page fault is disabled, KVM does not want to pause the host if a guest triggers a page fault; instead it will put it into an artificial HLT state that allows running other host processes while allowing interrupt delivery into the guest. However, the way this feature is triggered is a bit confusing. First, it is not used for page faults while a nested guest is running: but this is not an issue since the artificial halt is completely invisible to the guest, either L1 or L2. Second, it is used even if kvm_halt_in_guest() returns true; in this case, the guest probably should not pay the additional latency cost of the artificial halt, and thus we should handle the page fault in a completely synchronous way. By introducing a new function kvm_can_deliver_async_pf, this patch commonizes the code that chooses whether to deliver an async page fault (kvm_arch_async_page_not_present) and the code that chooses whether a page fault should be handled synchronously (kvm_can_do_async_pf). Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>