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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: kvm: fixes for locking.rst
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:07:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220322110720.222499-2-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220322110720.222499-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>

Separate the various locks clearly, and include the new names of blocked_vcpu_on_cpu_lock
and blocked_vcpu_on_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst | 28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
index 5d27da356836..4f21063bfbd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst
@@ -210,32 +210,41 @@ time it will be set using the Dirty tracking mechanism described above.
 3. Reference
 ------------
 
-:Name:		kvm_lock
+``kvm_lock``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
 :Type:		mutex
 :Arch:		any
 :Protects:	- vm_list
 
-:Name:		kvm_count_lock
+``kvm_count_lock``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
 :Type:		raw_spinlock_t
 :Arch:		any
 :Protects:	- hardware virtualization enable/disable
 :Comment:	'raw' because hardware enabling/disabling must be atomic /wrt
 		migration.
 
-:Name:		kvm_arch::tsc_write_lock
-:Type:		raw_spinlock
+
+``kvm_arch::tsc_write_lock``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+:Type:		raw_spinlock_t
 :Arch:		x86
 :Protects:	- kvm_arch::{last_tsc_write,last_tsc_nsec,last_tsc_offset}
 		- tsc offset in vmcb
 :Comment:	'raw' because updating the tsc offsets must not be preempted.
 
-:Name:		kvm->mmu_lock
-:Type:		spinlock_t
+``kvm->mmu_lock``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+:Type:		spinlock_t or rwlock_t
 :Arch:		any
 :Protects:	-shadow page/shadow tlb entry
 :Comment:	it is a spinlock since it is used in mmu notifier.
 
-:Name:		kvm->srcu
+``kvm->srcu``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 :Type:		srcu lock
 :Arch:		any
 :Protects:	- kvm->memslots
@@ -246,10 +255,11 @@ time it will be set using the Dirty tracking mechanism described above.
 		The srcu index can be stored in kvm_vcpu->srcu_idx per vcpu
 		if it is needed by multiple functions.
 
-:Name:		blocked_vcpu_on_cpu_lock
+``wakeup_vcpus_on_cpu_lock``
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 :Type:		spinlock_t
 :Arch:		x86
-:Protects:	blocked_vcpu_on_cpu
+:Protects:	wakeup_vcpus_on_cpu
 :Comment:	This is a per-CPU lock and it is used for VT-d posted-interrupts.
 		When VT-d posted-interrupts is supported and the VM has assigned
 		devices, we put the blocked vCPU on the list blocked_vcpu_on_cpu
-- 
2.35.1



  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-22 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-22 11:07 [PATCH 0/2] Documentation: kvm: improvements to locking.rst Paolo Bonzini
2022-03-22 11:07 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2022-03-22 11:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: kvm: include new locks Paolo Bonzini

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