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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: KVM: move slots_lock acquision down to vapic_exit (resend)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:45:39 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080625054538.GA6276@dmt.cnet> (raw)


There is no need to grab slots_lock if the vapic_page will not
be touched.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 26b051b..29e8983 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2759,8 +2759,10 @@ static void vapic_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (!apic || !apic->vapic_addr)
 		return;
 
+	down_read(&vcpu->kvm->slots_lock);
 	kvm_release_page_dirty(apic->vapic_page);
 	mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, apic->vapic_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	up_read(&vcpu->kvm->slots_lock);
 }
 
 static int __vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *kvm_run)
@@ -2916,9 +2918,7 @@ out:
 
 	post_kvm_run_save(vcpu, kvm_run);
 
-	down_read(&vcpu->kvm->slots_lock);
 	vapic_exit(vcpu);
-	up_read(&vcpu->kvm->slots_lock);
 
 	return r;
 }

                 reply	other threads:[~2008-06-25  5:46 UTC|newest]

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