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[Xen-devel] RE: Bug in CS 20073

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: Bug in CS 20073
From: "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:31:57 +0800
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Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 21/08/2009 13:03, "Stephen Smalley" <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 17:02 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
>>> Looks like a lock normally taken with irqs disabled may be being
>>> taken with irqs enabled. Which wouldn't be allowed but could be
>>> easy to fix. 
>> 
>> This appears to have been introduced by CS 20073, x86:  Implement
>> per-cpu vector for xen hypervisor.  It introduces mixed usage of
>> spin_lock() and spin_lock_irqsave() on the vector_lock, whereas
>> previously it was always spin_lock_irqsave().
> 
> Xiantao, Can you make a patch for this? Any acquisition of the lock
> where irqs may not already be disabled must do spin_lock_irq or
> spin_lock_irqsave. 

Yes, I will work out a fix for that. :)
Xiantao

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