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KVM: document lock orders
This is long overdue, and not really hard. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1476357057-17899-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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1. Acquisition Orders
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(to be written)
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The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows:
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- kvm->lock is taken outside vcpu->mutex
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- kvm->lock is taken outside kvm->slots_lock and kvm->irq_lock
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- kvm->slots_lock is taken outside kvm->irq_lock, though acquiring
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them together is quite rare.
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For spinlocks, kvm_lock is taken outside kvm->mmu_lock. Everything
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else is a leaf: no other lock is taken inside the critical sections.
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2: Exception
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