[PATCH 16/18] KVM: Don't take mmu_lock for range invalidation unless necessary

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Wed Mar 31 22:00:19 BST 2021


On 31/03/21 22:52, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 100% agree with introducing on_lock separately from the conditional locking.
> 
> Not so sure about introducing conditional locking and then converting non-x86
> archs.  I'd prefer to keep the conditional locking after arch conversion.
> If something does go awry, it would be nice to be able to preciesly bisect to
> the conditional locking.  Ditto if it needs to be reverted because it breaks an
> arch.

Ok, that sounds good too.

Paolo




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