Re: [PATCH v3 11/11] KVM: MMU: apply page track notifier

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 23/02/2016 05:40, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>>>
>>> @@ -7878,6 +7877,7 @@ void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
>>>       kfree(kvm->arch.vioapic);
>>>       kvm_free_vcpus(kvm);
>>>       kfree(rcu_dereference_check(kvm->arch.apic_map, 1));
>>> +    kvm_mmu_uninit_vm(kvm);
>>
>> This function is not necessary, since the VM is disappearing anyway and
>> the page tracker is not going to be called.
> 
> I think it is still necessary, as we are using srcu to protect the
> notifier, so
> we should wait all the callers of notifier callbacks gone, i.e,
> synchronize_srcu() is needed anyway.

You're right.

Paolo