Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:12:14 +0800 | From | Lan Tianyu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] KVM: Remove redundant smp_mb() in the kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page() |
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On 2016年03月04日 15:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Lan Tianyu wrote: > >> The following kvm_flush_remote_tlbs() will call smp_mb() inside and so >> remove smp_mb() here. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> >> --- >> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 6 ------ >> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c >> index a54ecd9..6315416 100644 >> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c >> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c >> @@ -2383,12 +2383,6 @@ static void kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm, >> return; >> >> /* >> - * wmb: make sure everyone sees our modifications to the page tables >> - * rmb: make sure we see changes to vcpu->mode > > You want to leave the comment explaining the memory barriers and tell that > kvm_flush_remote_tlbs() contains the smp_mb().
That sounds more reasonable. Will update. Thanks.
> >> - */ >> - smp_mb(); >> - >> - /* >> * Wait for all vcpus to exit guest mode and/or lockless shadow >> * page table walks. >> */ >> -- >> 1.8.4.rc0.1.g8f6a3e5.dirty >> >>
-- Best regards Tianyu Lan
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