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authorOtavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300
commit1279cd128bba968ebe0a2df7f7ae38bae90250ef (patch)
treedf6b1a190760f51465122ca4c13492d5ac5984c6 /Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt
parent0a8ab17689e628c84a666195bfc6ab85d11cf057 (diff)
parent2ae782ca839e0ee07de37122ddea362adff2e975 (diff)
Merge pull request #76 from toradex/4.9-2.3.x-imx
4.9 2.3.x imx
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt
index e5dd9f4d6100..46ef3680c8ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ The acquisition orders for mutexes are as follows:
- kvm->slots_lock is taken outside kvm->irq_lock, though acquiring
them together is quite rare.
-For spinlocks, kvm_lock is taken outside kvm->mmu_lock. Everything
-else is a leaf: no other lock is taken inside the critical sections.
+Everything else is a leaf: no other lock is taken inside the critical
+sections.
2: Exception
------------
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ See the comments in spte_has_volatile_bits() and mmu_spte_update().
------------
Name: kvm_lock
-Type: spinlock_t
+Type: mutex
Arch: any
Protects: - vm_list