From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: [PATCH] xen: disable PV spinlocks on HVM Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:41:47 +0100 Message-ID: <1315327307-392-1-git-send-email-stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org From: Stefano Stabellini PV spinlocks cannot possibly work with the current code because they are enabled after pvops patching has already been done, and because PV spinlocks use a different data structure than native spinlocks so we cannot switch between them dynamically. A spinlock that has been taken once by the native code (__ticket_spin_lock) cannot be taken by __xen_spin_lock even after it has been released. Reported-by: Stefan Bader Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini --- arch/x86/xen/smp.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c index e79dbb9..51339b4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/smp.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/smp.c @@ -522,7 +522,6 @@ static void __init xen_hvm_smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus) WARN_ON(xen_smp_intr_init(0)); xen_init_lock_cpu(0); - xen_init_spinlocks(); } static int __cpuinit xen_hvm_cpu_up(unsigned int cpu) -- 1.7.2.3