Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] x86/vpt: introduce a per-vPT lock

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 30.09.2020 15:30, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:41:08PM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> Introduce a per virtual timer lock that replaces the existing per-vCPU
>> and per-domain vPT locks. Since virtual timers are no longer assigned
>> or migrated between vCPUs the locking can be simplified to a
>> in-structure spinlock that protects all the fields.
>>
>> This requires introducing a helper to initialize the spinlock, and
>> that could be used to initialize other virtual timer fields in the
>> future.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Just realized I had the following uncommitted chunk that should have
> been part of this patch, nothing critical but the tm_lock can now be
> removed.

And then
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Jan