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authorGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>2009-08-24 11:54:26 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2009-12-03 09:32:08 +0200
commit680b3648ba89c44ac8d0316f78a0d6e147b88809 (patch)
treeb2b40034c4c33affef8b89822673cca835874651 /arch
parenteba0226bdfffe262e72b8360e4d0d12070e9a0f0 (diff)
KVM: Drop kvm->irq_lock lock from irq injection path
The only thing it protects now is interrupt injection into lapic and this can work lockless. Even now with kvm->irq_lock in place access to lapic is not entirely serialized since vcpu access doesn't take kvm->irq_lock. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c2
4 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c b/arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c
index 4a983147f6e..f534e0f6bb0 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c
@@ -982,10 +982,8 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
goto out;
if (irqchip_in_kernel(kvm)) {
__s32 status;
- mutex_lock(&kvm->irq_lock);
status = kvm_set_irq(kvm, KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID,
irq_event.irq, irq_event.level);
- mutex_unlock(&kvm->irq_lock);
if (ioctl == KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS) {
irq_event.status = status;
if (copy_to_user(argp, &irq_event,
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
index 144e7f60b5e..fab7440c9bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
@@ -688,10 +688,8 @@ static void __inject_pit_timer_intr(struct kvm *kvm)
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
int i;
- mutex_lock(&kvm->irq_lock);
kvm_set_irq(kvm, kvm->arch.vpit->irq_source_id, 0, 1);
kvm_set_irq(kvm, kvm->arch.vpit->irq_source_id, 0, 0);
- mutex_unlock(&kvm->irq_lock);
/*
* Provides NMI watchdog support via Virtual Wire mode.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index df8bcb0f66d..8787637b1a9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -501,9 +501,7 @@ static void apic_send_ipi(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
irq.trig_mode, irq.level, irq.dest_mode, irq.delivery_mode,
irq.vector);
- mutex_lock(&apic->vcpu->kvm->irq_lock);
kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic(apic->vcpu->kvm, apic, &irq);
- mutex_unlock(&apic->vcpu->kvm->irq_lock);
}
static u32 apic_get_tmcct(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index fdf989f17a6..5beb4c16caa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2286,10 +2286,8 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
goto out;
if (irqchip_in_kernel(kvm)) {
__s32 status;
- mutex_lock(&kvm->irq_lock);
status = kvm_set_irq(kvm, KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID,
irq_event.irq, irq_event.level);
- mutex_unlock(&kvm->irq_lock);
if (ioctl == KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS) {
irq_event.status = status;
if (copy_to_user(argp, &irq_event,