linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 09/12] xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks

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Date:	Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:09:10 +0530
From:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>, suzuki@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 09/12] xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV
 ticket locks

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 06:03:04PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Replace the old Xen implementation of PV spinlocks with and implementation
> of xen_lock_spinning and xen_unlock_kick.

I see that the old implementation took care of a spinlock() call being
interrupted by another spinlock (in interrupt handler), by saving/restoring 
old lock of interest. We don't seem to be doing that in this new version?
Won't that lead to loss of wakeup -> hang?

Also are you planning to push this series into mainline sometime soon?

- vatsa
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