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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/19] KVM: MMU: lockless walking shadow page table
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 05:18:35 -0300
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:26:14AM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 02:08 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> >> +static void free_pages_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct kvm_mmu_page *next, *sp;
> >> +
> >> +	sp = container_of(head, struct kvm_mmu_page, rcu);
> >> +	while (sp) {
> >> +		if (!list_empty(&sp->link))
> >> +			next = list_first_entry(&sp->link,
> >> +				      struct kvm_mmu_page, link);
> >> +		else
> >> +			next = NULL;
> >> +		kvm_mmu_free_page(sp);
> >> +		sp = next;
> >> +	}
> >> +}
> > 
> > There is no need for this while loop.
> > 
> 
> The while loop is needed, since many shadow pages can be freed together in
> the rcu context, on commit_zap_page path, we only remove the list head, and
> the shadow page is still listed.

Right.