Reduce time spent holding kvm->lock: unlock mutex before calling synchronize_srcu(). Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index da4bbd043a7b..7d398e0da834 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -6491,12 +6491,12 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_set_msr_filter(struct kvm *kvm, old_filter = srcu_dereference_check(kvm->arch.msr_filter, &kvm->srcu, 1); rcu_assign_pointer(kvm->arch.msr_filter, new_filter); + mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock); synchronize_srcu(&kvm->srcu); kvm_free_msr_filter(old_filter); kvm_make_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_MSR_FILTER_CHANGED); - mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock); return 0; } -- 2.39.0
