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| author | Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> | 2009-08-24 11:54:26 +0300 |
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| committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2009-12-03 09:32:08 +0200 |
| commit | 680b3648ba89c44ac8d0316f78a0d6e147b88809 (patch) | |
| tree | b2b40034c4c33affef8b89822673cca835874651 /arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | |
| parent | eba0226bdfffe262e72b8360e4d0d12070e9a0f0 (diff) | |
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 'arch/x86/kvm/x86.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index fdf989f17a6..5beb4c16caa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -2286,10 +2286,8 @@ 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, |