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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kvm_host.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h index d4d4d7092110..eada8e69fe58 100644 --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h @@ -702,12 +702,16 @@ static inline int mmu_notifier_retry(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long mmu_se if (unlikely(vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_count)) return 1; /* - * Both reads happen under the mmu_lock and both values are - * modified under mmu_lock, so there's no need of smb_rmb() - * here in between, otherwise mmu_notifier_count should be - * read before mmu_notifier_seq, see - * mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end write side. + * Ensure the read of mmu_notifier_count happens before the read + * of mmu_notifier_seq. This interacts with the smp_wmb() in + * mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end to make sure that the caller + * either sees the old (non-zero) value of mmu_notifier_count or + * the new (incremented) value of mmu_notifier_seq. + * PowerPC Book3s HV KVM calls this under a per-page lock + * rather than under kvm->mmu_lock, for scalability, so + * can't rely on kvm->mmu_lock to keep things ordered. */ + smp_rmb(); if (vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq != mmu_seq) return 1; return 0; |