Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] arm/arm64: KVM: Move vgic handling to a non-preemptible section

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On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 06:56:34PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> As we're about to introduce some serious GIC-poking to the vgic code,
> it is important to make sure that we're going to poke the part of
> the GIC that belongs to the CPU we're about to run on (otherwise,
> we'd end up with some unexpected interrupts firing)...
> 
> Introducing a non-preemptible section in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
> prevents the problem from occuring.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
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