Re: Problem with kvm on -tip

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Apr 12 2009 - 08:43:20 EST



* Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> index a1ecec5..b556b6a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -630,10 +630,12 @@ static void kvm_write_guest_time(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
> if ((!vcpu->time_page))
> return;
>
> + preempt_disable();
> if (unlikely(vcpu->hv_clock_tsc_khz != __get_cpu_var(cpu_tsc_khz))) {
> kvm_set_time_scale(__get_cpu_var(cpu_tsc_khz), &vcpu->hv_clock);
> vcpu->hv_clock_tsc_khz = __get_cpu_var(cpu_tsc_khz);
> }
> + preempt_enable();

fix look good, but note that this is an open-coded get_cpu_var()
sequence - please use get_cpu_var()/put_cpu_var() instead.

Ingo
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