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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] fix deadlock of ptc.ga emulation

To: Kouya SHIMURA <kouya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] fix deadlock of ptc.ga emulation
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:08:50 -0600
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On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:35 +0900, Kouya SHIMURA wrote:
> Sorry, my previous patch implies a bug.
> 
> ptc_ga_remote_func() might be invoked by IPI with a schedule_lock
> that is acquired. (e.g., inside of vcpu_migrate())
> It will cause a deadlock.

   I hit this too, but couldn't reliably reproduce it.  Thanks for the
fix.  Applied.

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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