Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:17:39 +0200 | | From | Avi Kivity <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5] kvm: make vcpu life cycle separated from kvm instance |
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On 12/26/2011 01:09 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > + > > + idx = srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu_vcpus); > > + kvm_for_each_vcpu(vcpu, kvm) { > > + if (!pass && !firststart && > > + vcpu != kvm->last_boosted_vcpu && > > + kvm->last_boosted_vcpu != NULL) { > > + vcpu = kvm->last_boosted_vcpu; > You access last_boosted_vcpu as if it is protected by srcu, but it > isn't. kvm_vcpu_release() changes it after synchronize_srcu_expedited() > call. > > I do not like this last_boosted_vcpu pointer much. May be we can rid of > it by remembering last apic_id and searching for it each time we enter > the function. I do not think this function is to performance sensitive. > We enter here when vcpu is spinning anyway.
We aren't guaranteed to have an apic_id, so it has to be done using rcu, or maybe vcpu_id. I prefer using srcu, we can't run away from vcpu pointers.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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