From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: improve comment on rcu use in irqfd_deassign
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 13:03:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110306110326.GA23818@redhat.com> (raw)
The RCU use in kvm_irqfd_deassign is tricky: we have rcu_assign_pointer
but no synchronize_rcu: synchronize_rcu is done by kvm_irq_routing_update
which we share a spinlock with.
Fix up a comment in an attempt to make this clearer.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
index 2ca4535..3656849 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
@@ -313,8 +313,9 @@ kvm_irqfd_deassign(struct kvm *kvm, int fd, int gsi)
if (irqfd->eventfd == eventfd && irqfd->gsi == gsi) {
/*
* This rcu_assign_pointer is needed for when
- * another thread calls kvm_irqfd_update before
- * we flush workqueue below.
+ * another thread calls kvm_irq_routing_update before
+ * we flush workqueue below (we synchronize with
+ * kvm_irq_routing_update using irqfds.lock).
* It is paired with synchronize_rcu done by caller
* of that function.
*/
--
1.7.3.2.91.g446ac
next reply other threads:[~2011-03-06 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 11:03 Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2011-03-06 12:36 ` [PATCH] kvm: improve comment on rcu use in irqfd_deassign Avi Kivity
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20110306110326.GA23818@redhat.com \
--to=mst@redhat.com \
--cc=avi@redhat.com \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mtosatti@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox