Re: [PATCH v5 07/12] Maintain memslot version number

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

  On 07/19/2010 06:30 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Code that depends on particular memslot layout can track changes and
> adjust to new layout.
>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> index c13cc48..c74ffc0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ struct kvm {
>   	raw_spinlock_t requests_lock;
>   	struct mutex slots_lock;
>   	struct mm_struct *mm; /* userspace tied to this vm */
> +	u32 memslot_version;
>   	struct kvm_memslots *memslots;
>   	struct srcu_struct srcu;
>   #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_APIC_ARCHITECTURE
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index b78b794..292514c 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -733,6 +733,7 @@ skip_lpage:
>   	slots->memslots[mem->slot] = new;
>   	old_memslots = kvm->memslots;
>   	rcu_assign_pointer(kvm->memslots, slots);
> +	kvm->memslot_version++;
>   	synchronize_srcu_expedited(&kvm->srcu);
>
>   	kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(kvm, mem, old, user_alloc);

How does this interact with rcu?  Nothing enforces consistency between 
rcu_dereference(kvm->memslots) and kvm->memslot_version.

Should probably be rcu_dereference(kvm->memslots)->version.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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