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As we're about to call vcpu_load() from architecture-specific implementations of the KVM vcpu ioctls, but yet we access data structures protected by the vcpu->mutex in the generic code, factor this logic out from vcpu_load(). x86 is the only architecture which calls vcpu_load() outside of the main vcpu ioctl function, and these calls will no longer take the vcpu mutex following this patch. However, with the exception of kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate (see below), the callers are either in the creation or destruction path of the VCPU, which means there cannot be any concurrent access to the data structure, because the file descriptor is not yet accessible, or is already gone. kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate makes the newly created vcpu potentially accessible by other in-kernel threads through the kvm->vcpus array, and we therefore take the vcpu mutex in this case directly. Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.