Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] kexec: don't disable interrupts when acquiring load/unload lock

[Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 12:22:22PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This doesn't appear to have served any purpose other than causing
> map_pages_to_xen() to be (incorrectly) invoked with interrupts
> disabled. In particular, serialization against actual kexec-ing is done
> without this lock being involved. Clarify the scope of the lock at once
> by making it local to do_kexec_op_internal().
>
> Once at it, also drop a pointless initializer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>

Daniel

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