Ben Gardon
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KVM: x86/mmu: Use an rwlock for the x86 MMU
Add a read / write lock to be used in place of the MMU spinlock on x86. The rwlock will enable the TDP MMU to handle page faults, and other operations in parallel in future commits. Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com> Message-Id: <20210202185734.1680553-19-bgardon@google.com> [Introduce virt/kvm/mmu_lock.h - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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