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kvm,lapic: Justify use of swait_active()

A comment might serve future readers.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Davidlohr Bueso 8 years ago
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      arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c

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arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c

@@ -1324,6 +1324,10 @@ static void apic_timer_expired(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
 	atomic_inc(&apic->lapic_timer.pending);
 	kvm_set_pending_timer(vcpu);
 
+	/*
+	 * For x86, the atomic_inc() is serialized, thus
+	 * using swait_active() is safe.
+	 */
 	if (swait_active(q))
 		swake_up(q);