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[6/7] KVM/x86: update the comment of memory barrier in the vcpu_enter_guest()

Message ID 1457838631-26775-7-git-send-email-tianyu.lan@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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lan,Tianyu March 13, 2016, 3:10 a.m. UTC 
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>
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 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index bcbce0f..4bdb4e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6589,8 +6589,12 @@  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();