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KVM: Drop kvm->irq_lock lock from irq injection path

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The only thing it protects now is interrupt injection into lapic and
this can work lockless. Even now with kvm->irq_lock in place access
to lapic is not entirely serialized since vcpu access doesn't take
kvm->irq_lock.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Gleb Natapov
2009-08-24 11:54:26 +03:00
committed by Avi Kivity
parent eba0226bdf
commit 680b3648ba
7 changed files with 1 additions and 17 deletions
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arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c
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@@ -982,10 +982,8 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
goto out;
if (irqchip_in_kernel(kvm)) {
__s32 status;
mutex_lock(&kvm->irq_lock);
status = kvm_set_irq(kvm, KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID,
irq_event.irq, irq_event.level);
mutex_unlock(&kvm->irq_lock);
if (ioctl == KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS) {
irq_event.status = status;
if (copy_to_user(argp, &irq_event,