linux-kernel - Re: [patch] eventfd - allow atomic read and waitqueue remove

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Message-ID: <4B530578.80003@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:41:28 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] eventfd - allow atomic read and waitqueue remove

On 01/13/2010 07:34 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> KVM needs a wait to atomically remove themselves from the eventfd ->poll()
> wait queue head, in order to handle correctly their IRQfd deassign
> operation.
> This patch introduces such API, plus a way to read an eventfd from its
> context.
> Andrew, they prefer to have this go through Avi's KVM tree, in order to
> keep dependencies localized. So you just ignore this.
> Avi, this fixes a few checkpatch warnings, so you should get this instead
> of the one posted previously.
>
>
>    

Applied, thanks.

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