From 680b3648ba89c44ac8d0316f78a0d6e147b88809 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gleb Natapov Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:54:26 +0300 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | 2 -- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 -- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 -- 3 files changed, 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm') diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c index 144e7f60b5e2..fab7440c9bb2 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 df8bcb0f66d8..8787637b1a9c 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 fdf989f17a61..5beb4c16caab 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, -- cgit v1.2.3