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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] hostmem: make hostmem global and RAM hotunp


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] hostmem: make hostmem global and RAM hotunplg safe
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:38:55 +0200
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Il 15/04/2013 03:42, liu ping fan ha scritto:
> > It will work because readers will grab either the hostmem_lock or the
> > BQL, while writers will grab both.  A kind of local/global lock, but I'm
> 
> No only hostmem_lock is used to protect readers from writers.  While
> the writers are protected agaist each other by biglock.  So leaving
> the "cur_hostmem = next_hostmem" outside to reflect the lock's rules.

Doesn't help much if you do not document them...

Paolo



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