Re: [patch-rt] kvm: Convert pvclock_gtod_sync_lock to raw_spinlock_t

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Jan 20 2017 - 12:33:02 EST


On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 17:44 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> kvm_make_mclock_inprogress_request() will do zalloc_cpumask_var().
> off-stack zalloc is not yet working but I would like to enable it. Also
> it does a SMP function call.
>
> Couldn't we go the other way around and drop the local_irq_disable()?

I suppose so.

-MIke