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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: kvm: Convert i8254/i8259 locks to raw_spinlocks
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:20:35 +0200
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On 02/18/2010 11:12 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>    
>> The i8254/i8259 locks need to be real spinlocks on preempt-rt. Convert
>> them to raw_spinlock. No change for !RT kernels.
>>      
> Last time I ran KVM over RT, I also had to convert requests_lock (struct
> kvm): make_all_cpus_request assumes that this lock prevents migration.
>
>    

True.  Will commit something to that effect.

Meanwhile, if anyone has any idea how to kill this lock, I'd love to see it.

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