KVM: document lock orders

This is long overdue, and not really hard.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini 2016-10-13 13:10:57 +02:00
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@ -4,7 +4,17 @@ KVM Lock Overview
1. Acquisition Orders
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(to be written)
The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows:
- kvm->lock is taken outside vcpu->mutex
- kvm->lock is taken outside kvm->slots_lock and kvm->irq_lock
- kvm->slots_lock is taken outside kvm->irq_lock, though acquiring
them together is quite rare.
For spinlocks, kvm_lock is taken outside kvm->mmu_lock. Everything
else is a leaf: no other lock is taken inside the critical sections.
2: Exception
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