Thomas Gleixner 83409986f4 rseq, virt: Retrigger RSEQ after vcpu_run()
Hypervisors invoke resume_user_mode_work() before entering the guest, which
clears TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. The @regs argument is NULL as there is no user
space context available to them, so the rseq notify handler skips
inspecting the critical section, but updates the CPU/MM CID values
unconditionally so that the eventual pending rseq event is not lost on the
way to user space.

This is a pointless exercise as the task might be rescheduled before
actually returning to user space and it creates unnecessary work in the
vcpu_run() loops.

It's way more efficient to ignore that invocation based on @regs == NULL
and let the hypervisors re-raise TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME after returning from the
vcpu_run() loop before returning from the ioctl().

This ensures that a pending RSEQ update is not lost and the IDs are updated
before returning to user space.

Once the RSEQ handling is decoupled from TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME, this turns into
a NOOP.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084306.399495855@linutronix.de
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