FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Use split "zap all fast" helpers when" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x db095727ff5739f4f46ee641ee6ef450032886db
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026090923-sleep-shore-e015@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From db095727ff5739f4f46ee641ee6ef450032886db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 13:49:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Use split "zap all fast" helpers when
invalidating memslot

Manually invoke the front half and back half of the "zap all fast" flow when invalidating a memslot so that mmu_lock is acquired at function scope
in kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot(). This will allow putting more code
inside the critical section without having to take mmu_lock twice in quick succession.

Opportunistically open code checking whether or not to do the fast zap, to discourage removing the local "zap_all" in a future cleanup, i.e. to ensure the SLOT_ZAP_ALL quirk is queried exactly once. Processing the front half but not the back half of the fast zap (if SLOT_ZAP_ALL were disabled concurrently) would result in KVM unnecessarily keeping invalid TDP MMU roots until the VM is destroyed.

No functional change intended.

index a5c2a560a88a..3eb1f86593b1 100644
@@ -7573,12 +7573,6 @@ static void kvm_mmu_zap_memslot_pages_and_flush(struct kvm *kvm,
 	kvm_mmu_remote_flush_or_zap(kvm, &invalid_list, flush);
 }
 
-static inline bool kvm_memslot_flush_zap_all(struct kvm *kvm)
-{
-	return kvm->arch.vm_type == KVM_X86_DEFAULT_VM &&
-	       kvm_check_has_quirk(kvm, KVM_X86_QUIRK_SLOT_ZAP_ALL);
-}
-
 void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot(struct kvm *kvm,
 				   struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
 {

@@ -7589,16 +7583,23 @@ void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot(struct kvm *kvm,
 		.may_block = true,
 		.attr_filter = KVM_FILTER_PRIVATE | KVM_FILTER_SHARED,
 	};
+	bool zap_all = kvm->arch.vm_type == KVM_X86_DEFAULT_VM &&
+		       kvm_check_has_quirk(kvm, KVM_X86_QUIRK_SLOT_ZAP_ALL);
 	bool flush;
 
-	if (kvm_memslot_flush_zap_all(kvm)) {
-		kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast(kvm);
+	write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+
+	if (zap_all) {
+		__kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast_front_half(kvm);
 	} else {
-		write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 		flush = kvm_unmap_gfn_range(kvm, &range);
 		kvm_mmu_zap_memslot_pages_and_flush(kvm, slot, flush);
-		write_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 	}
+
+	write_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+
+	if (zap_all)
+		__kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast_back_half(kvm);
 }
 
 void kvm_mmu_invalidate_mmio_sptes(struct kvm *kvm, u64 gen)