Commit-ID: b2604398c296be2c3c8157d144b2ee0b62491240
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b2604398c296be2c3c8157d144b2ee0b62491240
Author: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 30 May 2011 20:27:55 +0300
Committer: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:38:00 +0300
kvm tools: Add a brlock
brlock is a lock which is very cheap for reads, but very expensive
for writes.
This lock will be used when updates are very rare and reads are
common.
This lock is currently implemented by stopping the guest while
performing the updates. We assume that the only threads which
read from the locked data are VCPU threads, and the only writer
isn't a VCPU thread.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/kvm/include/kvm/brlock.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/kvm/include/kvm/brlock.h b/tools/kvm/include/kvm/brlock.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e2e0f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/kvm/include/kvm/brlock.h
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#ifndef KVM__BRLOCK_H
+#define KVM__BRLOCK_H
+
+#include "kvm/kvm.h"
+#include "kvm/barrier.h"
+
+/*
+ * brlock is a lock which is very cheap for reads, but very expensive
+ * for writes.
+ * This lock will be used when updates are very rare and reads are common.
+ * This lock is currently implemented by stopping the guest while
+ * performing the updates. We assume that the only threads whichread from
+ * the locked data are VCPU threads, and the only writer isn't a VCPU thread.
+ */
+
+#ifndef barrier
+#define barrier() __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory")
+#endif
+
+#define br_read_lock() barrier()
+#define br_read_unlock() barrier()
+
+#define br_write_lock() kvm__pause()
+#define br_write_unlock() kvm__continue()
+#endif
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