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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: Convert kvm_lock to raw_spinlock
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:25:17 +0200
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On 02/09/2011 11:24 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 01:55 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Code under this lock requires non-preemptibility. Ensure this also over
>> -rt by converting it to raw spinlock.
>>
>
> Please add a code comment documenting what data under this lock 
> requires it to be a raw spinlock.
>

Or better, put it in Documentation/kvm/locking.txt, which we'll try to 
grow to cover all locks.

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