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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kvm: fix circular locking dependency
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:52:34 -0800
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* Mark McLoughlin (markmc@redhat.com) wrote:
> kvm->slots_lock is outer to kvm->lock, so take slots_lock
> in kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_device() before taking kvm->lock,
> rather than taking it in kvm_iommu_map_memslots().

stable?  maint/2.6.29?