From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use spin_lock_irqsave/restore for virtio-pci
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:21:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803041121.30288.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204497468-13463-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com>
On Monday 03 March 2008 09:37:48 Anthony Liguori wrote:
> virtio-pci acquires its spin lock in an interrupt context so it's necessary
> to use spin_lock_irqsave/restore variants. This patch fixes guest SMP when
> using virtio devices in KVM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Thanks, applied.
Rusty.
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2008-03-02 22:37 [PATCH] Use spin_lock_irqsave/restore for virtio-pci Anthony Liguori
2008-03-04 0:21 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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