Re: [PATCH 0/2] s390/vfio-ap: do not open code locks for VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM notification

From: Tony Krowiak
Date: Tue Aug 03 2021 - 09:38:05 EST




On 8/3/21 9:08 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 12:32:12PM -0400, Tony Krowiak wrote:
On 8/2/21 9:53 AM, Halil Pasic wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 09:10:26 -0400
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PING!

This patch will pre-req version 17 of a patch series I have waiting in
the wings,
so I'd like to get this one merged ASAP. In particular, if a KVM
maintainer can
take a look at the comments concerning the taking of the kvm->lock
before the
matrix_mdev->lock it would be greatly appreciated. Those comments begin with
Message ID <20210727004329.3bcc7d4f.pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Halil Pasic.
As far as I'm concerned, we can move forward with this. Was this
supposed to go in via Alex's tree?
I am not certain, Christian queued the previous patches related to
this on:


https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git/log/?h=fixes

Jason G., since this will need to be integrated with your other patches,
where should this be queued?
I prefer changes to the vfio stuff go to Alex as we are changing it a
lot as well this cycle.

Thanks Jason.


Jason