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Sean Christopherson authored
Register /dev/kvm, i.e. expose KVM to userspace, only after all other
setup has completed.  Once /dev/kvm is exposed, userspace can start
invoking KVM ioctls, creating VMs, etc...  If userspace creates a VM
before KVM is done with its configuration, bad things may happen, e.g.
KVM will fail to properly migrate vCPU state if a VM is created before
KVM has registered preemption notifiers.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20221130230934.1014142-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.