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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 04/11] tcg: comment on which functions have to


From: Sergey Fedorov
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 04/11] tcg: comment on which functions have to be called with tb_lock held
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 16:36:56 +0300
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On 11/05/16 15:58, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> On 06/05/2016 20:22, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
>> However, there's no sensible description of what is protected by tb_lock
>> and mmap_lock. I think we need to have a clear documented description of
>> the TCG locking scheme in order to be sure we do right things in MTTCG.
> I think there was such a patch somewhere, but: tb_lock basically
> protects tcg_ctx, while mmap_lock protects the user-mode emulation page
> table (the equivalent for system emulation is the memory map which is
> protected by the BQL).  Furthermore, mmap_lock must be taken outside
> tb_lock.

What's a user-mode emulation page table? 'l1_map'? It is used by system
emulation to keep track of TBs per page and 'code_bitmap'. Shouldn't it
be protected with 'mmap_lock' in system emulation?

Thanks,
Sergey



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