Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:13:08 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kvm: don't take vcpu mutex for obviously invalid vcpu ioctls |
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 03:58:16PM -0700, David Matlack wrote: > > Should not be executing vcpu ioctls without interrupt KVM_RUN in the > > first place. > > This patch is trying to be nice to code that isn't aware it's > probing kvm file descriptors. We saw long hangs with some generic > process inspection code that was probing all open file descriptors. > There's no reason non-kvm ioctls should have to wait for the vcpu > mutex to become available just to fail.
OK then, please add the usecase to the changelog.
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