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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen/pvticketlock: disable interrupts while
 
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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen/pvticketlock: disable interrupts while blocking | 
 
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Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | 
 
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Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:47:48 +0200 | 
 
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On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 12:29 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
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> > I know that its generally considered bad form, but there's at least one
> > spinlock that's only taken from NMI context and thus hasn't got any
> > deadlock potential.
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> Which one? 
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:nmi_reason_lock
It serializes NMI access to the NMI reason port across CPUs.
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