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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2015-03-18 14:21:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2015-04-30 16:55:32 +0200 |
| commit | 41063e1e7afcb2f13e103720fe96221657f5dbbc (patch) | |
| tree | ce78dca7d90917ffc9bfe45fcec5dfba0f8a9320 /include | |
| parent | 4c6637525290dc863a00be7f58fc11d07b780bd4 (diff) | |
exec: move rcu_read_lock/unlock to address_space_translate callers
Once address_space_translate will be called outside the BQL, the returned
MemoryRegion might disappear as soon as the RCU read-side critical section
ends. Avoid this by moving the critical section to the callers.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1426684909-95030-3-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/exec/memory.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h index 0ccfd3b42a..b61c84f62a 100644 --- a/include/exec/memory.h +++ b/include/exec/memory.h @@ -1233,7 +1233,9 @@ void address_space_stq(AddressSpace *as, hwaddr addr, uint64_t val, #endif /* address_space_translate: translate an address range into an address space - * into a MemoryRegion and an address range into that section + * into a MemoryRegion and an address range into that section. Should be + * called from an RCU critical section, to avoid that the last reference + * to the returned region disappears after address_space_translate returns. * * @as: #AddressSpace to be accessed * @addr: address within that address space |