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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-07-29 22:50:17 +0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-07-29 22:50:17 +0400 |
commit | 9c5891bd4342349a200676d33f742dd1b864822c (patch) | |
tree | b14c1698f2d8ce5276e1befd562f6398a46b48b9 /drivers/vhost/vhost.h | |
parent | ecda040ff3724f021a96491ecee88d48e968c153 (diff) | |
parent | 5ae90d8e467e625e447000cb4335c4db973b1095 (diff) | |
download | linux-9c5891bd4342349a200676d33f742dd1b864822c.tar.xz |
Merge 3.11-rc3 into char-misc-next.
This resolves a merge issue with:
drivers/misc/mei/init.c
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vhost/vhost.h')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h index 42298cd23c73..4465ed5f316d 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h @@ -103,14 +103,8 @@ struct vhost_virtqueue { struct iovec iov[UIO_MAXIOV]; struct iovec *indirect; struct vring_used_elem *heads; - /* We use a kind of RCU to access private pointer. - * All readers access it from worker, which makes it possible to - * flush the vhost_work instead of synchronize_rcu. Therefore readers do - * not need to call rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock: the beginning of - * vhost_work execution acts instead of rcu_read_lock() and the end of - * vhost_work execution acts instead of rcu_read_unlock(). - * Writers use virtqueue mutex. */ - void __rcu *private_data; + /* Protected by virtqueue mutex. */ + void *private_data; /* Log write descriptors */ void __user *log_base; struct vhost_log *log; |