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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:43:45 +0000
Subject: Re: switching from KVM guest to the host .... TLBs not present?
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Applied, but I note that entering the guest with any lock held is 
> problematic, as the guest may spend an arbitrary amount of time in guest 
> mode.  Really, entering the guest is almost exactly like exiting to 
> userspace.

Thanks Avi,

I did wonder about this as I noticed x86_64 doesn't hold the lock while
entering a guest. I'll have a look - seems like it could be the reason
why I get hit by lockdep timeouts when running larger guests on ia64.

Cheers,
Jes