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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	borntraeger@de.ibm.com, cohuck@redhat.com,
	pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com, jjherne@linux.ibm.com,
	alex.williamson@redhat.com, kwankhede@nvidia.com,
	frankja@linux.ibm.com, david@redhat.com, imbrenda@linux.ibm.com,
	hca@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/vfio-ap: do not open code locks for VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM notification
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:57:21 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210715145721.GE543781@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210715133136.420c40b0.pasic@linux.ibm.com>

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 01:31:36PM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote:

> I'm in favor of rewriting this to use rw_semaphore. I'm not in favor
> of proclaiming this a fix for stable, because for that you first have
> to prove that you fix a real problem.

So Tony keeps saying that a rwsem couldn't work for what kvm_busy
does, so it should be trivial enough to put in the rwsem and capture
the lockdep spew.
 
> I hope we are on the same page.

Sure

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-15 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-07 15:41 [PATCH] s390/vfio-ap: do not open code locks for VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM notification Tony Krowiak
2021-07-12 13:42 ` Tony Krowiak
2021-07-12 23:38 ` Halil Pasic
2021-07-13 13:48   ` Tony Krowiak
2021-07-13 16:45     ` Halil Pasic
2021-07-13 17:05       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-13 19:04         ` Tony Krowiak
2021-07-13 19:21           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-14 13:25             ` Tony Krowiak
2021-07-14 17:56               ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-07-14 18:43                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-07-14 19:02                 ` Alex Williamson
2021-07-15 11:31         ` Halil Pasic
2021-07-15 14:57           ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2021-07-13 18:47       ` Tony Krowiak
2021-07-15 13:44 ` Halil Pasic
2021-07-15 14:38   ` Tony Krowiak

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