Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: introduce a KVM device lock

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>]

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 03:20:30PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> The XICS-on-XIVE KVM device needs to allocate XIVE event queues when a
> priority is used by the OS. This is referred as EQ provisioning and it
> is done under the hood when :
> 
>   1. a CPU is hot-plugged in the VM
>   2. the "set-xive" is called at VM startup
>   3. sources are restored at VM restore
> 
> The kvm->lock mutex is used to protect the different XIVE structures
> being modified but in some contextes, kvm->lock is taken under the
> vcpu->mutex which is a forbidden sequence by KVM.
> 
> Introduce a new mutex 'lock' for the KVM devices for them to
> synchronize accesses to the XIVE device structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>

Thanks, patch applied to my kvm-ppc-fixes branch (with the headline
"KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Introduce a new mutex for the XIVE
device").

Paul.