Re: [PATCH] Use spin_lock_irqsave/restore for virtio-pci

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Mon Mar 03 2008 - 19:22:23 EST

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On Monday 03 March 2008 09:37:48 Anthony Liguori wrote:
> virtio-pci acquires its spin lock in an interrupt context so it's necessary
> to use spin_lock_irqsave/restore variants. This patch fixes guest SMP when
> using virtio devices in KVM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

Rusty.
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