[PATCH 2/7] KVM/x86: Replace smp_mb() with smp_store_mb/release() in the walk_shadow_page_lockless_begin/end()

[Lan Tianyu]

Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu....@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 5e795af..d1ee68c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -632,12 +632,12 @@ static void walk_shadow_page_lockless_begin(struct 
kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
         * kvm_flush_remote_tlbs() IPI to all active vcpus.
         */
        local_irq_disable();
-       vcpu->mode = READING_SHADOW_PAGE_TABLES;
+
        /*
         * Make sure a following spte read is not reordered ahead of the write
         * to vcpu->mode.
         */
-       smp_mb();
+       smp_store_mb(vcpu->mode, READING_SHADOW_PAGE_TABLES);
 }
 
 static void walk_shadow_page_lockless_end(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
@@ -647,8 +647,7 @@ static void walk_shadow_page_lockless_end(struct kvm_vcpu 
*vcpu)
         * reads to sptes.  If it does, kvm_commit_zap_page() can see us
         * OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE and proceed to free the shadow page table.
         */
-       smp_mb();
-       vcpu->mode = OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE;
+       smp_store_release(&vcpu->mode, OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE);
        local_irq_enable();
 }
 
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