From 680b3648ba89c44ac8d0316f78a0d6e147b88809 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gleb Natapov Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:54:26 +0300 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'virt/kvm/eventfd.c') 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); } /* -- cgit v1.2.3