Hi Quan, Can I ask a dumb question?
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Quan Xu <quan...@intel.com> wrote: > pcidevs_lock should be held with interrupt enabled. However there remains > an exception in AMD IOMMU code, where the lock is acquired with interrupt > disabled. This inconsistency might lead to deadlock. Why will this inconsistency lead to deadlock? I understand the difference between spin_lock_irqsave(), which disable interrupt, and spin_lock(), which allows interrupt, however, I didn't get why misuse the spin_lock_irqsave() at the place of spin_lock() could potentially lead to a deadlock? Would you minding pointing me to somewhere I can find the reason or enlighten me? Thank you very much! Best, Meng ----------- Meng Xu PhD Student in Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mengxu/ _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
