Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Convert tsc_write_lock to raw_spinlock

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On 02/07/2011 05:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>
>  I don't know as it is allowed to sleep, it doesn't call any sleeping
>  functions to my knowledge.  What worries me in the RT case is that the
>  spinlock acquired for hardware_enable might be preempted and run on
>  another CPU, which obviously isn't what you want.

I see now, there are calls to raw_smp_processor_id.

I think it's best to make this a raw lock. At this chance, some
read-only users of vm_list should be rcu'ified. Will have a look.

vm_list is rarely used, for either read or write. I don't see the need to rcu it.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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