On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 22:23:48 +0200 Eric Farman <farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rather than allocating/freeing a piece of memory every time > we try to figure out how long a CCW chain is, let's use a piece > of memory allocated for each device. > > The io_mutex added with commit 4f76617378ee9 ("vfio-ccw: protect > the I/O region") is held for the duration of the VFIO_CCW_EVENT_IO_REQ > event that accesses/uses this space, so there should be no race > concerns with another CPU attempting an (unexpected) SSCH for the > same device. > > Suggested-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Conny, your suggestion [1] did not go unnoticed. :) :) > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/comment/22312659/ > --- > drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.c | 23 ++++------------------- > drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_cp.h | 7 +++++++ > drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c | 7 +++++++ > 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Nice! Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>