linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] vfio: fixup notifiers and avoid possible deadlock

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Date:	Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:01:37 -0600
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:	alex.williamson@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] vfio: fixup notifiers and avoid possible deadlock

Cleanup a couple of the notifier paths to remove bogus WARN_ON calls.
One is pretty easy to hit and neither really signifies a problems.
Fix remove path to avoid potential deadlock with other device_lock
holders.  Thanks,

Alex

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Alex Williamson (3):
      vfio: Don't overreact to DEL_DEVICE
      vfio: Ignore sprurious notifies
      vfio-pci: Avoid deadlock on remove


 drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/vfio/vfio.c         |   37 ++++++++++---------------------------
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
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