On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:02:28AM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: > > Here's what I have in mind: > > kvm does > > lock > > dev = find > > unlock > > > > <---------- at this point group device is removed > > > > write access to device that has been removed > > > > > > > > Hmm...you are right. This looks like it was introduced with that recent > locking patch you cited. Well, I can still fix it now easily by putting > an rcu-read-lock around the access. Longer term we should move to > srcu. Thoughts? > > -Greg >
Some callbacks take kvm mutex lock. So it seems rcu won't work, we need srcu. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
