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KVM: avoid unnecessary synchronize_rcu

We dont have to wait for a grace period if there is no oldpid that
we are going to free. putpid also checks for NULL, so this patch
only fences synchronize_rcu.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Christian Borntraeger 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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      virt/kvm/kvm_main.c

+ 2 - 1
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c

@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ int vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		struct pid *oldpid = vcpu->pid;
 		struct pid *newpid = get_task_pid(current, PIDTYPE_PID);
 		rcu_assign_pointer(vcpu->pid, newpid);
-		synchronize_rcu();
+		if (oldpid)
+			synchronize_rcu();
 		put_pid(oldpid);
 	}
 	cpu = get_cpu();