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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Take the SRCU read lock before looking up memslots
The generic KVM code uses SRCU (sleeping RCU) to protect accesses to the memslots data structures against updates due to userspace adding, modifying or removing memory slots. We need to do that too, both to avoid accessing stale copies of the memslots and to avoid lockdep warnings. This therefore adds srcu_read_lock/unlock pairs around code that accesses and uses memslots. Since the real-mode handlers for H_ENTER, H_REMOVE and H_BULK_REMOVE need to access the memslots, and we don't want to call the SRCU code in real mode (since we have no assurance that it would only access the linear mapping), we hold the SRCU read lock for the VM while in the guest. This does mean that adding or removing memory slots while some vcpus are executing in the guest will block for up to two jiffies. This tradeoff is acceptable since adding/removing memory slots only happens rarely, while H_ENTER/H_REMOVE/H_BULK_REMOVE are performance-critical hot paths. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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