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authorAlex Williamson2014-01-14 16:12:55 -0700
committerAlex Williamson2014-01-14 16:12:55 -0700
commit3be3a074cf5ba641529d8fdae0e05ca642f23e12 (patch)
treeae0c3fc80319e33c7618c63706a9c9dd98842b79 /Documentation
parentd10999016f4164e9b80f1b3dece3842087cfa3bb (diff)
vfio-pci: Don't use device_lock around AER interrupt setup
device_lock is much too prone to lockups. For instance if we have a pending .remove then device_lock is already held. If userspace attempts to modify AER signaling after that point, a deadlock occurs. eventfd setup/teardown is already protected in vfio with the igate mutex. AER is not a high performance interrupt, so we can also use the same mutex to protect signaling versus setup races. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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