From: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]> virt_xxx memory barriers are implemented trivially using the low-level __smp_xxx macros, __smp_xxx is equal to a compiler barrier for strong TSO memory model, however, mandatory barriers will unconditional add memory barriers, this patch replaces the rmb() in kvm_steal_clock() by virt_rmb().
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c index 14f65a5..da5c097 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c @@ -396,9 +396,9 @@ static u64 kvm_steal_clock(int cpu) src = &per_cpu(steal_time, cpu); do { version = src->version; - rmb(); + virt_rmb(); steal = src->steal; - rmb(); + virt_rmb(); } while ((version & 1) || (version != src->version)); return steal; -- 2.7.4
