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| author | Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com> | 2019-01-03 17:14:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-11-12 19:21:40 +0100 |
| commit | 30d8d8d6cd928b5bc8547aca6d8eb30b334d5451 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b2dc2de789dc9b2da9315017d8b7fc484178106 /Documentation | |
| parent | a991063ce57684a2259688886643cf1c430f8188 (diff) | |
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kvm: Convert kvm_lock to a mutex
commit 0d9ce162cf46c99628cc5da9510b959c7976735b upstream.
It doesn't seem as if there is any particular need for kvm_lock to be a
spinlock, so convert the lock to a mutex so that sleepable functions (in
particular cond_resched()) can be called while holding it.
Signed-off-by: Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt index 1bb8bcaf8497..635cd6eaf714 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt @@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows: On x86, vcpu->mutex is taken outside kvm->arch.hyperv.hv_lock. -For spinlocks, kvm_lock is taken outside kvm->mmu_lock. - Everything else is a leaf: no other lock is taken inside the critical sections. @@ -169,7 +167,7 @@ which time it will be set using the Dirty tracking mechanism described above. ------------ Name: kvm_lock -Type: spinlock_t +Type: mutex Arch: any Protects: - vm_list |