KVM: add vm refcounting

the main purpose of adding this functions is the abilaty to release the
spinlock that protect the kvm list while still be able to do operations
on a specific kvm in a safe way.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 41d4b6519136..93ed78b015c0 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(void)
         mutex_init(&kvm->lock);
         kvm_io_bus_init(&kvm->mmio_bus);
         init_rwsem(&kvm->slots_lock);
+        atomic_set(&kvm->users_count, 1);
         spin_lock(&kvm_lock);
         list_add(&kvm->vm_list, &vm_list);
         spin_unlock(&kvm_lock);
@@ -242,11 +243,25 @@ static void kvm_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
         mmdrop(mm);
 }
 
+void kvm_get_kvm(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+        atomic_inc(&kvm->users_count);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_get_kvm);
+
+void kvm_put_kvm(struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+        if (atomic_dec_and_test(&kvm->users_count))
+                kvm_destroy_vm(kvm);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_put_kvm);
+
+
 static int kvm_vm_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
         struct kvm *kvm = filp->private_data;
 
-        kvm_destroy_vm(kvm);
+        kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
         return 0;
 }