On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 05:52:30PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/09/2009 03:41 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov<gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> include/linux/kvm_host.h | 1 +
>> virt/kvm/irq_comm.c | 16 ++++++++--------
>> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 1 +
>> 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
>> index ce28cb7..8791ce8 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
>> @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ struct kvm {
>> spinlock_t irq_routing_lock;
>> struct hlist_head mask_notifier_list;
>> struct hlist_head irq_ack_notifier_list;
>> + spinlock_t irq_notifier_list_lock;
>>
>
> Again, why?
>
Because later patches remove irq_lock entirely and lock is need for
write even with rcu. So instead of reusing irq_lock to protect those
structures on write I introduce locks with self descriptive names.
--
Gleb.
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