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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] AMD IOMMU: Fix a dead lock in device assignment.

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] AMD IOMMU: Fix a dead lock in device assignment.
From: Wei Wang2 <wei.wang2@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:09:58 +0100
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Do not obtain pcidevs_lock in reassign_device() to avoid the dead lock.

Thanks,
Wei

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.wang2@xxxxxxx>
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