From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kvm: virt_xxx memory barriers instead of mandatory barriers Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 21:04:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20170412190432.GE20145@potion> References: <1491904161-4099-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini , Wanpeng Li To: Wanpeng Li Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1491904161-4099-1-git-send-email-wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org 2017-04-11 02:49-0700, Wanpeng Li: > From: Wanpeng Li > > virt_xxx memory barriers are implemented trivially using the low-level > __smp_xxx macros, __smp_xxx is equal to a compiler barrier for strong > TSO memory model, however, mandatory barriers will unconditional add > memory barriers, this patch replaces the rmb() in kvm_steal_clock() by > virt_rmb(). > > Cc: Paolo Bonzini > Cc: Radim Krčmář > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li > --- Applied to kvm/queue, thanks.