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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c index 08340219c35a..512163d52194 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c @@ -592,7 +592,10 @@ static inline int tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic(struct kvm *kvm, /* * Note, fast_pf_fix_direct_spte() can also modify TDP MMU SPTEs and - * does not hold the mmu_lock. + * does not hold the mmu_lock. On failure, i.e. if a different logical + * CPU modified the SPTE, try_cmpxchg64() updates iter->old_spte with + * the current value, so the caller operates on fresh data, e.g. if it + * retries tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic() */ if (!try_cmpxchg64(sptep, &iter->old_spte, new_spte)) return -EBUSY; |