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KVM/x86: update the comment of memory barrier in the vcpu_enter_guest()

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>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Lan Tianyu 9 years ago
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1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
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      arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

+ 6 - 2
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

@@ -6596,8 +6596,12 @@ 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();