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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] In-kernel XICS interrupt controller emulation
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:52:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130426235247.GB5743@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366996413.26749.2@snotra>

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:13:33PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:

> Also please note that we no longer hold kvm->lock during device
> creation, so your EEXIST check looks racy.

Huh?  Patch 2/8 adds this code:

+       mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
+       if (kvm->arch.xics)
+               ret = -EEXIST;
+       else
+               kvm->arch.xics = xics;
+       mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);

How is that racy?

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-26 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-18  6:29 [PATCH v5 0/8] In-kernel XICS interrupt controller emulation Paul Mackerras
2013-04-18  6:30 ` [PATCH 1/8] KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add infrastructure to implement kernel-side RTAS calls Paul Mackerras
2013-04-18  6:30 ` [PATCH 2/8] KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add kernel emulation for the XICS interrupt controller Paul Mackerras
2013-04-18  6:30 ` [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Speed up wakeups of CPUs on HV KVM Paul Mackerras
2013-04-18  6:31 ` [PATCH 4/8] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add support for real mode ICP in XICS emulation Paul Mackerras
2013-04-18  6:31 ` [PATCH 5/8] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Improve real-mode handling of external interrupts Paul Mackerras
2013-04-18  6:32 ` [PATCH 6/8] KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add support for ibm,int-on/off RTAS calls Paul Mackerras
2013-04-18  6:32 ` [PATCH 7/8] KVM: PPC: Book3S: Facilities to save/restore XICS presentation ctrler state Paul Mackerras
2013-04-18  6:32 ` [PATCH 8/8] KVM: PPC: Book 3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation Paul Mackerras
2013-04-26 14:30 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] In-kernel XICS interrupt controller emulation Alexander Graf
2013-04-26 17:13   ` Scott Wood
2013-04-26 23:52     ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2013-04-27  0:08       ` Scott Wood
2013-04-27  8:36   ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-28  9:50     ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-28 12:05       ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-30  9:59         ` Alexander Graf

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