[PATCH] kvm: eventfd comment fixup

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Clarify a comment in kvm/eventfd.c: we do
rcu_assign_pointer without explicit synchronize_rcu
afterwards, and the reason this works is because we
use a spinlock to synch against another place
which does call synchronize_rcu.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

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diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
index 2ca4535..e347b53 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c
@@ -313,8 +313,9 @@ kvm_irqfd_deassign(struct kvm *kvm, int fd, int gsi)
 		if (irqfd->eventfd == eventfd && irqfd->gsi == gsi) {
 			/*
 			 * This rcu_assign_pointer is needed for when
-			 * another thread calls kvm_irqfd_update before
-			 * we flush workqueue below.
+			 * another thread calls kvm_irq_routing_update before
+			 * we flush workqueue below (we synchronize with
+			 * kvm_irq_routing_update using irqfds.lock).
 			 * It is paired with synchronize_rcu done by caller
 			 * of that function.
 			 */

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MST
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