diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst index 88fa495abbac..5d27da356836 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst @@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows: can be taken inside a kvm->srcu read-side critical section, while kvm->slots_lock cannot. +- kvm->mn_active_invalidate_count ensures that pairs of + invalidate_range_start() and invalidate_range_end() callbacks + use the same memslots array. kvm->slots_lock and kvm->slots_arch_lock + are taken on the waiting side in install_new_memslots, so MMU notifiers + must not take either kvm->slots_lock or kvm->slots_arch_lock. + On x86: - vcpu->mutex is taken outside kvm->arch.hyperv.hv_lock |