[RFC v2 3/6] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding control
Paolo Bonzini
pbonzini at redhat.com
Mon Jul 6 10:41:25 PDT 2015
On 06/07/2015 19:09, Eric Auger wrote:
>> > The good thing is that this helps a bit forming a lock hierarchy across
>> > the subsystems, for example irq bypass mutex outside vfio_platform_irq
>> > spinlock, because you cannot have a spinlock inside the mutex. I think
>> > that all of your six callbacks are fine.
> arghh, no that's wrong then. I have plenty of them in the KVM/arm vgic
> part :-(
I checked and it's right...
/me rereads
AAAARGH. You cannot have a mutex inside a spinlock. What you're doing
is fine.
Paolo
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