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authorIzik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>2008-02-10 18:04:15 +0200
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2008-03-04 15:19:40 +0200
commit72dc67a69690288538142df73a7e3ac66fea68dc (patch)
treef40cc5ef0c66686a469977fd438e5b6786f16280 /include
parentc7ac679c160db864810920df61a6ed14275011aa (diff)
KVM: remove the usage of the mmap_sem for the protection of the memory slots.
This patch replaces the mmap_sem lock for the memory slots with a new kvm private lock, it is needed beacuse untill now there were cases where kvm accesses user memory while holding the mmap semaphore. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kvm_host.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index ea4764b0a2f..928b0d59e9b 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ struct kvm_memory_slot {
struct kvm {
struct mutex lock; /* protects the vcpus array and APIC accesses */
spinlock_t mmu_lock;
+ struct rw_semaphore slots_lock;
struct mm_struct *mm; /* userspace tied to this vm */
int nmemslots;
struct kvm_memory_slot memslots[KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS +