Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: fix cache stale memslot info with correct mmio generation number

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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Il 18/08/2014 23:15, David Matlack ha scritto:
>> I just realized how simple Paolo's idea is. I think it can be a one line
>> patch (without comments):
>>
>> [...]
>>         update_memslots(slots, new, kvm->memslots->generation);
>>         rcu_assign_pointer(kvm->memslots, slots);
>>         synchronize_srcu_expedited(&kvm->srcu);
>> +       slots->generation++;
>>
>>         kvm_arch_memslots_updated(kvm);
>> [...]
>
> Yeah, you're right.  I think at this point it makes sense to put all
> generation handling in install_new_memslots, but with proper comments
> the above can do as well.
>
> Would you like to send it?  Patch 2 still applies on top.

Sure, I like doing everything in install_new_memslots() as well so I'll fix
that.
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