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[Xen-devel] [PATCH 11/11] gnttab: drop useless locking



Holding any lock while accessing the maptrack entry fields is
pointless, as these entries are protected by their associated active
entry lock (which is being acquired later, before re-validating the
fields read without holding the lock).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/common/grant_table.c
+++ b/xen/common/grant_table.c
@@ -1122,19 +1122,14 @@ __gnttab_unmap_common(
     smp_rmb();
     map = &maptrack_entry(lgt, op->handle);
 
-    grant_read_lock(lgt);
-
     if ( unlikely(!read_atomic(&map->flags)) )
     {
-        grant_read_unlock(lgt);
         gdprintk(XENLOG_INFO, "Zero flags for handle %#x\n", op->handle);
         op->status = GNTST_bad_handle;
         return;
     }
 
     dom = map->domid;
-    grant_read_unlock(lgt);
-
     if ( unlikely((rd = rcu_lock_domain_by_id(dom)) == NULL) )
     {
         /* This can happen when a grant is implicitly unmapped. */



Attachment: gnttab-useless-locking.patch
Description: Text document

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