From 0f127d12e44c13d2f90e5c613490e70ddb1a5e08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:10:29 +0800
Subject: KVM/x86: update the comment of memory barrier in the
 vcpu_enter_guest()

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>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'arch')

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 98ae1fb9fd66..e260ccbc8f55 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6596,8 +6596,12 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 	srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, vcpu->srcu_idx);
 
-	/* We should set ->mode before check ->requests,
-	 * see the comment in make_all_cpus_request.
+	/*
+	 * We should set ->mode before check ->requests,
+	 * Please see the comment in kvm_make_all_cpus_request.
+	 * 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__after_srcu_read_unlock();
 
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