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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 /virt/kvm/eventfd.c | |
| parent | eba0226bdfffe262e72b8360e4d0d12070e9a0f0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-680b3648ba89c44ac8d0316f78a0d6e147b88809.tar.bz2 | |
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/eventfd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c index bb4ebd89b9ff..30f70fd511c4 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/eventfd.c +++ b/virt/kvm/eventfd.c @@ -61,10 +61,8 @@ irqfd_inject(struct work_struct *work) struct _irqfd *irqfd = container_of(work, struct _irqfd, inject); struct kvm *kvm = irqfd->kvm; - mutex_lock(&kvm->irq_lock); kvm_set_irq(kvm, KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID, irqfd->gsi, 1); kvm_set_irq(kvm, KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID, irqfd->gsi, 0); - mutex_unlock(&kvm->irq_lock); } /* |