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| author | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2011-03-06 12:03:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | 2011-03-17 17:08:33 +0100 |
| commit | c8ce057eafd49da6a7afe7791bd84163f65f6132 (patch) | |
| tree | a40cff496f6ee5e2857509af0a2c1ccd89f7db1e | |
| parent | KVM: MMU: remove unused macros (diff) | |
| download | linux-c8ce057eafd49da6a7afe7791bd84163f65f6132.tar.xz linux-c8ce057eafd49da6a7afe7791bd84163f65f6132.zip | |
KVM: improve comment on rcu use in irqfd_deassign
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>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 2ca4535f4fb7..3656849f78a0 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. */ |