Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...

[firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git] / drivers / vhost / vhost.h

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
index 42298cd23c73842e6a4ec7f8434428b56e700098..4465ed5f316d6e9b36e1f43c05df1c980aa908ae 100644 (file)
--- 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;