linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: add kvm_request

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Date:   Fri, 17 Feb 2017 10:51:46 +0100
From:   Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>
To:     Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
        James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: add kvm_request_pending

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 05:04:49PM +0100, Radim Krčmář wrote:
...
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> index 2cc438685af8..563cf964dc5c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> @@ -1101,6 +1101,11 @@ static inline int kvm_ioeventfd(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_ioeventfd *args)
>   * should contain kvm_vcpu_kick().
>   */
>  
> +static inline bool kvm_request_pending(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +	return vcpu->requests;

How about wrapping this with READ_ONCE for good measure?

> +}
> +
>  static inline void __kvm_request_set(unsigned req, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
>  	set_bit(req, &vcpu->requests);
> -- 
> 2.11.1
>

Thanks,
drew