From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Convert intx_mask_lock to spin lock Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:59:28 -0300 Message-ID: <20120315235928.GA12802@amt.cnet> References: <4F606CA3.20603@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Avi Kivity , kvm To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59628 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762134Ab2CPAHL (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:07:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F606CA3.20603@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:02:11AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > As kvm_notify_acked_irq calls kvm_assigned_dev_ack_irq under > rcu_read_lock, we cannot use a mutex in the latter function. Switch to a > spin lock to address this. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka > --- > include/linux/kvm_host.h | 2 +- > virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c | 14 +++++++------- > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Applied, thanks.