On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:59:04AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/22/2009 02:37 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> Use two steps for memslot deletion: mark the slot invalid (which stops >> instantiation of new shadow pages for that slot, but allows destruction), >> then instantiate the new empty slot. >> >> Also simplifies kvm_handle_hva locking. >> >> unsigned int kvm_mmu_calculate_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm) >> { >> - int i; >> + int i, idx; >> unsigned int nr_mmu_pages; >> unsigned int nr_pages = 0; >> + struct kvm_memslots *slots; >> >> - for (i = 0; i< kvm->memslots->nmemslots; i++) >> - nr_pages += kvm->memslots->memslots[i].npages; >> + idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu); >> > > Doesn't the caller hold the srcu_read_lock() here? No: kvm_vm_ioctl_set_nr_mmu_pages -> kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages And even if the caller did, recursive "locking" is tolerated. >> Index: kvm-slotslock/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c >> =================================================================== >> --- kvm-slotslock.orig/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c >> +++ kvm-slotslock/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c >> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ >> #include<linux/mm.h> >> #include<linux/highmem.h> >> #include<linux/sched.h> >> +#include<linux/srcu.h> >> #include<linux/moduleparam.h> >> #include<linux/ftrace_event.h> >> #include "kvm_cache_regs.h" >> @@ -1465,10 +1466,18 @@ static void enter_pmode(struct kvm_vcpu >> static gva_t rmode_tss_base(struct kvm *kvm) >> { >> if (!kvm->arch.tss_addr) { >> - gfn_t base_gfn = kvm->memslots->memslots[0].base_gfn + >> - kvm->memslots->memslots[0].npages - 3; >> + struct kvm_memslots *slots; >> + gfn_t base_gfn; >> + int idx; >> + >> + idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu); >> + slots = rcu_dereference(kvm->memslots); >> + base_gfn = slots->memslots[0].base_gfn + >> + slots->memslots[0].npages - 3; >> + srcu_read_unlock(&kvm->srcu, idx); >> return base_gfn<< PAGE_SHIFT; >> } >> + >> > > And here? kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs -> kvm_x86_ops->set_cr0. > Maybe we should take the srcu_lock in vcpu_load/put and only > drop in when going into vcpu context or explicitly sleeping, just to > simplify things. Hum, possible, but i'd rather leave it for later. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html