From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark McLoughlin Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kvm: fix circular locking dependency Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:57:31 +0000 Message-ID: <1233910651.3673.43.camel@blaa> References: <1233678929.3726.48.camel@blaa> <1233858226-21181-1-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> <20090205185234.GC27684@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Reply-To: Mark McLoughlin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: avi@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Wright Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:49225 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756139AbZBFI5g (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 03:57:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090205185234.GC27684@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 10:52 -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > * 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? Yep, my bad - Avi, please add: Cc: stable@kernel.org and pull into maint/2.6.29 Thanks, Mark.