linux-kernel - Re: Problem with kvm on -tip

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Date:	Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:42:43 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Luis Henriques <henrix@...o.pt>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with kvm on -tip


* Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> wrote:

> index a1ecec5..b556b6a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -630,10 +630,12 @@ static void kvm_write_guest_time(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
>  	if ((!vcpu->time_page))
>  		return;
>  
> +	preempt_disable();
>  	if (unlikely(vcpu->hv_clock_tsc_khz != __get_cpu_var(cpu_tsc_khz))) {
>  		kvm_set_time_scale(__get_cpu_var(cpu_tsc_khz), &vcpu->hv_clock);
>  		vcpu->hv_clock_tsc_khz = __get_cpu_var(cpu_tsc_khz);
>  	}
> +	preempt_enable();

fix look good, but note that this is an open-coded get_cpu_var() 
sequence - please use get_cpu_var()/put_cpu_var() instead.

	Ingo
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