On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 06:11:33PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 11:05:12PM +0800, Asias He wrote:
> > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:59:38PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:54:16PM +0800, Asias He wrote:
> > > > In commit a0f155e96 'KVM: Initialize irqfd from kvm_init()', when
> > > > kvm_init() is called the second time (e.g kvm-amd.ko and kvm-intel.ko),
> > > > kvm_arch_init() will fail with -EEXIST,
> > >
> > > Wow. Is this intentional?
> >
> > I think it is. You can not be amd and intel at the same time ;-)
> >
> > kvm_arch_init
> >
> > if (kvm_x86_ops) {
> > printk(KERN_ERR "kvm: already loaded the other module\n");
> > r = -EEXIST;
> > goto out;
> > }
> >
>
> Interesting. So we check it with
> if (kvm_x86_ops)
> and later we do
> kvm_x86_ops = ops;
>
>
> This looks racy - or is something serializing
> module loading?
>
I think module loading is serialized.
--
Gleb.
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