Documentation: kvm: fix SRCU locking order docs
kvm->srcu is taken in KVM_RUN and several other vCPU ioctls, therefore vcpu->mutex is susceptible to the same deadlock that is documented for kvm->slots_lock. The same holds for kvm->lock, since kvm->lock is held outside vcpu->mutex. Fix the documentation and rearrange it to highlight the difference between these locks and kvm->slots_arch_lock, and how kvm->slots_arch_lock can be useful while processing a vmexit. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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@ -24,17 +24,18 @@ The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows:
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For SRCU:
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- ``synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu)`` is called _inside_
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the kvm->slots_lock critical section, therefore kvm->slots_lock
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cannot be taken inside a kvm->srcu read-side critical section.
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Instead, kvm->slots_arch_lock is released before the call
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to ``synchronize_srcu()`` and _can_ be taken inside a
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kvm->srcu read-side critical section.
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- ``synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu)`` is called inside critical sections
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for kvm->lock, vcpu->mutex and kvm->slots_lock. These locks _cannot_
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be taken inside a kvm->srcu read-side critical section; that is, the
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following is broken::
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- kvm->lock is taken inside kvm->srcu, therefore
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``synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu)`` cannot be called inside
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a kvm->lock critical section. If you cannot delay the
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call until after kvm->lock is released, use ``call_srcu``.
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srcu_read_lock(&kvm->srcu);
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mutex_lock(&kvm->slots_lock);
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- kvm->slots_arch_lock instead is released before the call to
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``synchronize_srcu()``. It _can_ therefore be taken inside a
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kvm->srcu read-side critical section, for example while processing
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a vmexit.
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On x86:
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