Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 5 authors, 2025-10-22

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
Also in: linux-doc, linux-mm, lkml, virtualization

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

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