Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Fix locking order in handle_invalid_guest_state

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/26/2009 05:23 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> btw, what does it fix?  a debug warning?
>>>
>>>      
>>
>> I haven't seen anything in the wild, and I don't think it would raise a
>> warning. All it should cause is a potential delay of some pending
>> reschedule as preempt_enable will not fire under local_irq_disable.
>>    
> 
> Ah, okay, then it is a real fix.  Preempt-correctness is important.
> 
> (but won't local_irq_enable() reschedule?)

The last time I checked it was essentially a plain 'sti'.

Jan

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