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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] locking/qspinlock/x86: Avoid test-and-set when
 PV_DEDICATED is set
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:13:45 +0200
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Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, rkrcmar@redhat.com,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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To: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 05:44:27PM -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> @@ -46,6 +48,8 @@ static inline bool virt_spin_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
>  	if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
>  		return false;
>  
> +	if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_DEDICATED))
> +		return false;
>  	/*
>  	 * On hypervisors without PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS support we fall
>  	 * back to a Test-and-Set spinlock, because fair locks have

This does not apply. Much has been changed here recently.