[PATCH kernel 4/9] KVM: PPC: Use RCU for arch.spapr_tce_tables

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue Dec 8 13:35:55 AEDT 2015


On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 08:49:34PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> At the moment spapr_tce_tables is not protected against races. This makes
> use of RCU-variants of list helpers. As some bits are executed in real
> mode, this makes use of just introduced list_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace().
> 
> This converts release_spapr_tce_table() to a RCU scheduled handler.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>

Looks correct on my limited knowledge of RCU

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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