From dd489240a21afc3ff3962aba5d987229536cae63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:32:20 +0200 Subject: KVM: document memory barriers for kvm->vcpus/kvm->online_vcpus Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h index bd1097a95704..81089cf1f0c1 100644 --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h @@ -427,6 +427,10 @@ struct kvm { static inline struct kvm_vcpu *kvm_get_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, int i) { + /* Pairs with smp_wmb() in kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu, in case + * the caller has read kvm->online_vcpus before (as is the case + * for kvm_for_each_vcpu, for example). + */ smp_rmb(); return kvm->vcpus[i]; } -- cgit v1.2.3