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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	julia@ni.com, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: KVM Arm Device passthrough and linux-rt
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:04:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190604110454.2b99ee6e@oasis.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2fbc06b-373f-ee2a-b111-ea40848dc1c5@arm.com>

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 14:53:26 +0100
Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:

> That's to prevent the injection of an interrupt firing on the same CPU
> while we're saving the corresponding vcpu interrupt context, among other
> things (the whole guest exit path runs with interrupt disabled in order
> to avoid this kind of thing).

Can't we use a per_cpu local lock for this?

-- Steve

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-04 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-04 12:58 KVM Arm Device passthrough and linux-rt Julien Grall
2019-06-04 13:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-06-04 13:53   ` Marc Zyngier
2019-06-04 14:28     ` Marc Zyngier
2019-06-04 15:04     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2019-06-04 13:50 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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