On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 06:19:46PM +0000, Andres Beltran wrote: [...] > > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmbus_recvpacket_raw); > > > + > > > +/* > > > + * vmbus_next_request_id - Returns a new request id. It is also > > > + * the index at which the guest memory address is stored. > > > + * Uses a spin lock to avoid race conditions. > > > + * @rqstor: Pointer to the requestor struct > > > + * @rqst_add: Guest memory address to be stored in the array > > > + */ > > > +u64 vmbus_next_request_id(struct vmbus_requestor *rqstor, u64 rqst_addr) > > > +{ > > > + unsigned long flags; > > > + u64 current_id; > > > + > > > + spin_lock_irqsave(&rqstor->req_lock, flags); > > > > Do you really need the irqsave variant here? I.e. is there really a > > chance this code is reachable from an interrupt handler? > > Other VMBus drivers will also need to use this functionality, and > some of them will be called with interrupts disabled. So, I think > we should keep the irqsave variant here. > Okay. This makes sense. Wei.