On 08/13/2009 12:48 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 06:13:30AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
+++ b/virt/kvm/ioapic.c
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ int kvm_ioapic_set_irq(struct kvm_ioapic *ioapic, int irq,
int level)
union kvm_ioapic_redirect_entry entry;
int ret = 1;
+ mutex_lock(&ioapic->lock);
if (irq>= 0&& irq< IOAPIC_NUM_PINS) {
entry = ioapic->redirtbl[irq];
level ^= entry.fields.polarity;
But this is an RCU critical section now, right?
Correct! Forget about that. It was spinlock, but Avi prefers mutexes.
Well, I prefer correct code to mutexes.
If so, you can't sleep, must use a spinlock.
Either that or I can collect callbacks in critical section and call them
afterwords.
There's also srcu.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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