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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst index 1fc860c007a3..35eca377543d 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows: - kvm->slots_lock is taken outside kvm->irq_lock, though acquiring them together is quite rare. +- Unlike kvm->slots_lock, kvm->slots_arch_lock is released before + synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu). Therefore kvm->slots_arch_lock + can be taken inside a kvm->srcu read-side critical section, + while kvm->slots_lock cannot. + On x86: - vcpu->mutex is taken outside kvm->arch.hyperv.hv_lock |