Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: Synchronize accesses to the kvm->devices list

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On 08/08/2016 21:40, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> Why do we need to move xics_debugfs_init outside of kvm->lock()? Merely
> because it could sleep forever and we don't want that to block
> everything or does it loop around and deadlock somehow that I cannot
> easily see?

Just to keep the lock hierarchy as simple (and flat) as possible.  It's
not hard to do.

Paolo
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