kvm: vmx: Fix typos comment in __loaded_vmcs_clear()
authorPeng Hao <flyingpeng@tencent.com>
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:40:29 +0000 (18:40 +0800)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:20:13 +0000 (08:20 -0500)
Fix a comment documenting the memory barrier related to clearing a
loaded_vmcs; loaded_vmcs tracks the host CPU the VMCS is loaded on via
the field 'cpu', it doesn't have a 'vcpu' field.

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <flyingpeng@tencent.com>
Message-Id: <20220222104029.70129-1-flyingpeng@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c

index e1b3743..7ceda46 100644 (file)
@@ -640,10 +640,10 @@ static void __loaded_vmcs_clear(void *arg)
 
        /*
         * Ensure all writes to loaded_vmcs, including deleting it from its
-        * current percpu list, complete before setting loaded_vmcs->vcpu to
-        * -1, otherwise a different cpu can see vcpu == -1 first and add
-        * loaded_vmcs to its percpu list before it's deleted from this cpu's
-        * list. Pairs with the smp_rmb() in vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs().
+        * current percpu list, complete before setting loaded_vmcs->cpu to
+        * -1, otherwise a different cpu can see loaded_vmcs->cpu == -1 first
+        * and add loaded_vmcs to its percpu list before it's deleted from this
+        * cpu's list. Pairs with the smp_rmb() in vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs().
         */
        smp_wmb();