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authorGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>2009-08-24 11:54:26 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2009-12-03 09:32:08 +0200
commit680b3648ba89c44ac8d0316f78a0d6e147b88809 (patch)
treeb2b40034c4c33affef8b89822673cca835874651 /virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
parenteba0226bdfffe262e72b8360e4d0d12070e9a0f0 (diff)
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KVM: Drop kvm->irq_lock lock from irq injection path
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt/kvm/kvm_main.c')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 6eca153..c12c95b 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ static void kvm_assigned_dev_interrupt_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
interrupt_work);
kvm = assigned_dev->kvm;
- mutex_lock(&kvm->irq_lock);
spin_lock_irq(&assigned_dev->assigned_dev_lock);
if (assigned_dev->irq_requested_type & KVM_DEV_IRQ_HOST_MSIX) {
struct kvm_guest_msix_entry *guest_entries =
@@ -156,7 +155,6 @@ static void kvm_assigned_dev_interrupt_work_handler(struct work_struct *work)
assigned_dev->guest_irq, 1);
spin_unlock_irq(&assigned_dev->assigned_dev_lock);
- mutex_unlock(&assigned_dev->kvm->irq_lock);
}
static irqreturn_t kvm_assigned_dev_intr(int irq, void *dev_id)
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