Documentation: kvm: clarify SRCU locking order
Currently only the locking order of SRCU vs kvm->slots_arch_lock and kvm->slots_lock is documented. Extend this to kvm->lock since Xen emulation got it terribly wrong. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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@ -16,17 +16,26 @@ The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows:
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- kvm->slots_lock is taken outside kvm->irq_lock, though acquiring
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them together is quite rare.
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- Unlike kvm->slots_lock, kvm->slots_arch_lock is released before
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synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu). Therefore kvm->slots_arch_lock
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can be taken inside a kvm->srcu read-side critical section,
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while kvm->slots_lock cannot.
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- kvm->mn_active_invalidate_count ensures that pairs of
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invalidate_range_start() and invalidate_range_end() callbacks
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use the same memslots array. kvm->slots_lock and kvm->slots_arch_lock
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are taken on the waiting side in install_new_memslots, so MMU notifiers
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must not take either kvm->slots_lock or kvm->slots_arch_lock.
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For SRCU:
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- ``synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu)`` is called _inside_
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the kvm->slots_lock critical section, therefore kvm->slots_lock
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cannot be taken inside a kvm->srcu read-side critical section.
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Instead, kvm->slots_arch_lock is released before the call
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to ``synchronize_srcu()`` and _can_ be taken inside a
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kvm->srcu read-side critical section.
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- kvm->lock is taken inside kvm->srcu, therefore
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``synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu)`` cannot be called inside
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a kvm->lock critical section. If you cannot delay the
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call until after kvm->lock is released, use ``call_srcu``.
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On x86:
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- vcpu->mutex is taken outside kvm->arch.hyperv.hv_lock
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