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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-03-22 12:07:20 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-03-29 19:21:19 +0200
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Documentation: kvm: include new locks
kvm->mn_invalidate_lock and kvm->slots_arch_lock were not included in the documentation, add them. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20220322110720.222499-3-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
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--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
@@ -226,6 +226,12 @@ time it will be set using the Dirty tracking mechanism described above.
:Comment: 'raw' because hardware enabling/disabling must be atomic /wrt
migration.
+``kvm->mn_invalidate_lock``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+:Type: spinlock_t
+:Arch: any
+:Protects: mn_active_invalidate_count, mn_memslots_update_rcuwait
``kvm_arch::tsc_write_lock``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -255,6 +261,15 @@ time it will be set using the Dirty tracking mechanism described above.
The srcu index can be stored in kvm_vcpu->srcu_idx per vcpu
if it is needed by multiple functions.
+``kvm->slots_arch_lock``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+:Type: mutex
+:Arch: any (only needed on x86 though)
+:Protects: any arch-specific fields of memslots that have to be modified
+ in a ``kvm->srcu`` read-side critical section.
+:Comment: must be held before reading the pointer to the current memslots,
+ until after all changes to the memslots are complete
+
``wakeup_vcpus_on_cpu_lock``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:Type: spinlock_t