Re: [PATCH v2 02/14] KVM: x86: simplify atomics in kvm_pit_ack_irq

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 19/02/2016 16:51, Radim KrÄmÃÅ wrote:
> The end result is going to be identical.  I had a version that did
> something similar and it was pretty tangled as well -- I wanted to
> remove useless locks before re-using one for the ioctls.
> (We need the protection earlier, because userspace can control notifiers
>  while PIT is still being initialized.  And removing the lock had
>  dependencies.)

Yeah, I eventually imagined that cleaning up the locks helps with the
patch that adds/removes the notifiers dynamically.  Then I guess your
current ordering of the patches is good!

Paolo