From 72dc67a69690288538142df73a7e3ac66fea68dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Izik Eidus Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:04:15 +0200 Subject: KVM: remove the usage of the mmap_sem for the protection of the memory slots. This patch replaces the mmap_sem lock for the memory slots with a new kvm private lock, it is needed beacuse untill now there were cases where kvm accesses user memory while holding the mmap semaphore. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h index ea4764b0a2f4..928b0d59e9ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ struct kvm_memory_slot { struct kvm { struct mutex lock; /* protects the vcpus array and APIC accesses */ spinlock_t mmu_lock; + struct rw_semaphore slots_lock; struct mm_struct *mm; /* userspace tied to this vm */ int nmemslots; struct kvm_memory_slot memslots[KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS + -- cgit v1.2.3