Re: [PATCH RFC V10 15/18] kvm : Paravirtual ticketlocks support forlinux guests running on KVM hypervisor

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 12:32:22 EST


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 05:48:52PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:02:15AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > BTW can NMI handler take spinlocks?
>
> No -- that is, yes you can using trylock, but you still shouldn't.
>
Great news for this code. Thanks.

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Gleb.
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