Re: async pf: INFO: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun May 06 2012 - 08:00:35 EST


On 05/02/2012 03:04 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> KVM: Do not take reference to mm during async #PF
>
> It turned to be totally unneeded. The reason the code was introduced is
> so that KVM can prefault swapped in page, but prefault can fail even
> if mm is pinned since page table can change anyway. KVM handles this
> situation correctly though and does not inject spurious page faults.
>
>

Applied to master for 3.4, thanks.

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