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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()
On 09/19/2012 08:18 PM, Suresh Siddha wrote:

> These routines (kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()) are already called with
> preemption disabled but as you mentioned, we don't want the preemption
> to be disabled completely between the kvm_load_guest_fpu() and
> kvm_put_guest_fpu().
>
> Also KVM already has the preempt notifier which is doing the
> kvm_put_guest_fpu(), so something like the appended should address this.
> I will test this shortly.
>

Note, we could also go in a different direction and make
kernel_fpu_begin() use preempt notifiers and thus make its users
preemptible. But that's for a separate patchset.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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