linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen/pvticketlock: disable interrupts while blocking

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Message-ID: <1314996468.8255.0.camel@twins>
Date:	Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:47:48 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Xen Devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen/pvticketlock: disable interrupts while
 blocking

On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 12:29 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> > I know that its generally considered bad form, but there's at least one
> > spinlock that's only taken from NMI context and thus hasn't got any
> > deadlock potential.
> 
> Which one? 

arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:nmi_reason_lock

It serializes NMI access to the NMI reason port across CPUs.
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