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KVM: make guest mode entry to be rcu quiescent state

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KVM does not hold any references to rcu protected data when it switches
CPU into a guest mode. In fact switching to a guest mode is very similar
to exiting to userspase from rcu point of view. In addition CPU may stay
in a guest mode for quite a long time (up to one time slice). Lets treat
guest mode as quiescent state, just like we do with user-mode execution.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Gleb Natapov 2011-05-04 16:31:04 +03:00 committed by Avi Kivity
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include/linux/kvm_host.h
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@ -591,8 +591,17 @@ static inline int kvm_deassign_device(struct kvm *kvm,
static inline void kvm_guest_enter(void)
{
BUG_ON(preemptible());
account_system_vtime(current);
current->flags |= PF_VCPU;
/* KVM does not hold any references to rcu protected data when it
* switches CPU into a guest mode. In fact switching to a guest mode
* is very similar to exiting to userspase from rcu point of view. In
* addition CPU may stay in a guest mode for quite a long time (up to
* one time slice). Lets treat guest mode as quiescent state, just like
* we do with user-mode execution.
*/
rcu_virt_note_context_switch(smp_processor_id());
}
static inline void kvm_guest_exit(void)