page_find is reading the radix tree outside all locks, so it has to use the RCU primitives. It does not need RCU critical sections because the PageDescs are never removed, so there is never a need to wait for the end of code sections that use a PageDesc.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- translate-all.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/translate-all.c b/translate-all.c index 37bb56c..5329982 100644 --- a/translate-all.c +++ b/translate-all.c @@ -431,26 +431,26 @@ static PageDesc *page_find_alloc(tb_page_addr_t index, int alloc) /* Level 2..N-1. */ for (i = V_L1_SHIFT / V_L2_BITS - 1; i > 0; i--) { - void **p = *lp; + void **p = atomic_rcu_read(lp); if (p == NULL) { if (!alloc) { return NULL; } p = g_new0(void *, V_L2_SIZE); - *lp = p; + atomic_rcu_set(lp, p); } lp = p + ((index >> (i * V_L2_BITS)) & (V_L2_SIZE - 1)); } - pd = *lp; + pd = atomic_rcu_read(lp); if (pd == NULL) { if (!alloc) { return NULL; } pd = g_new0(PageDesc, V_L2_SIZE); - *lp = pd; + atomic_rcu_set(lp, pd); } return pd + (index & (V_L2_SIZE - 1)); -- 2.4.3