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[PATCH 7/7] KVM/PPC: update the comment of memory barrier in the kvmppc_prepare_to_enter()

From Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 7/7] KVM/PPC: update the comment of memory barrier in the kvmppc_prepare_to_enter()
Date 2016-03-13 04:30 +0100
Message-ID <rc4T8-830-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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The barrier also orders the write to mode from any reads
to the page tables done and so update the comment.

Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
index 19aa59b..6a68730 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ int kvmppc_prepare_to_enter(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		 * so we don't miss a request because the requester sees
 		 * OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE and assumes we'll be checking requests
 		 * before next entering the guest (and thus doesn't IPI).
+		 * This also orders the write to mode from any reads
+		 * to the page tables done while the VCPU is running.
+		 * Please see the comment in kvm_flush_remote_tlbs.
 		 */
 		smp_mb();
 
-- 
1.8.4.rc0.1.g8f6a3e5.dirty

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[PATCH 0/7] KVM/X86/PPC: Clear up kvm mmu memory barriers and update related comments Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> - 2016-03-13 04:30 +0100
  [PATCH 4/7] KVM/x86: Call smp_wmb() before increasing tlbs_dirty Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> - 2016-03-13 04:30 +0100
  [PATCH 7/7] KVM/PPC:  update the comment of memory barrier in the kvmppc_prepare_to_enter() Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> - 2016-03-13 04:30 +0100
  [PATCH 5/7] KVM: Replace smp_mb() with smp_load_acquire() in the kvm_flush_remote_tlbs() Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> - 2016-03-13 04:30 +0100
  [PATCH 6/7] KVM/x86: update the comment of memory barrier in the vcpu_enter_guest() Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> - 2016-03-13 04:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/7] KVM/X86/PPC: Clear up kvm mmu memory barriers and  update related comments Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-14 14:10 +0100

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