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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt index e5dd9f4d6100..46ef3680c8ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows: - 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. +Everything else is a leaf: no other lock is taken inside the critical +sections. 2: Exception ------------ @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ See the comments in spte_has_volatile_bits() and mmu_spte_update(). ------------ Name: kvm_lock -Type: spinlock_t +Type: mutex Arch: any Protects: - vm_list |