Re: [PATCH v12 17/20] KVM: xen: don't block on pfncache locks in kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast()

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, Paul Durrant wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> As described in [1] compiling with CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING shows that
> kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast() is blocking on pfncache locks in IRQ context.
> There is only actually blocking with PREEMPT_RT because the locks will
> turned into mutexes. There is no 'raw' version of rwlock_t that can be used
> to avoid that, so use read_trylock() and treat failure to lock the same as
> an invalid cache.

Are rwlocks fundamentally incapable of supporting a raw version?  Because that's
the only argument I see for adding a hack like this.




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