Re: [PATCH v1 06/23] vmw_balloon: stop using the balloon_dev_info lock
From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2025-10-22 08:40:43
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From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2025-10-22 08:40:43
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On 21.10.25 22:57, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 02:59:11PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:quoted
Let's not piggy-back on the existing lock and use a separate lock for the huge page list.which is fine but it is worth documenting that we are also no longer disabling interrupts while taking this lock.
Indeed, I'll add "Now that we use a separate lock, there is no need to disable interrupts, so use the non-irqsave variants." -- Cheers David / dhildenb