[I was kicked off from the mailing list by periodic unknown reason last Friday... Sorry]
> Hi Sheng, > > I think I'm running into the following deadlock in the kvm kernel module > when trying to use device assignment: > > CPU A CPU B > kvm_vm_ioctl_deassign_dev_irq() > mutex_lock(&kvm->lock); worker_thread() > -> kvm_deassign_irq() -> >kvm_assigned_dev_interrupt_work_handler() > -> deassign_host_irq() mutex_lock(&kvm->lock); > -> cancel_work_sync() [blocked] > I wonder if we need finer granularity locking to avoid this. > Suggestions? Thanks, This part again... I think simply move kvm_deassign_irq() out of critical region is OK, and I also add the lock which seems missing in deassign_guest_irq(). Would post a patch soon. -- regards Yang, Sheng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
