On 08/07/2013 09:09 PM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:02:08 +0800
> Xiao Guangrong <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> @@ -2342,6 +2358,13 @@ static void kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm,
>>       */
>>      kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
>>  
>> +    if (kvm->arch.rcu_free_shadow_page) {
>> +            sp = list_first_entry(invalid_list, struct kvm_mmu_page, link);
>> +            list_del_init(invalid_list);
>> +            call_rcu(&sp->rcu, free_pages_rcu);
>> +            return;
>> +    }
>> +
>>      list_for_each_entry_safe(sp, nsp, invalid_list, link) {
>>              WARN_ON(!sp->role.invalid || sp->root_count);
>>              kvm_mmu_free_page(sp);
> 
> Shouldn't we avoid calling call_rcu() when we are holding mmu_lock?

Using call_rcu() to free pages is a rare case that happen only between
lockless write-protection and zapping shadow pages, so i think we do
not need to care this case too much.

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