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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>
Paolo Bonzini 9 years ago
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Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt

@@ -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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