Re: [PATCH 0/2] s390/vfio-ap: do not open code locks for VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM notification

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Aug 03 2021 - 09:09:00 EST


On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 12:32:12PM -0400, Tony Krowiak wrote:
> On 8/2/21 9:53 AM, Halil Pasic wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 09:10:26 -0400
> > Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > PING!
> > >
> > > This patch will pre-req version 17 of a patch series I have waiting in
> > > the wings,
> > > so I'd like to get this one merged ASAP. In particular, if a KVM
> > > maintainer can
> > > take a look at the comments concerning the taking of the kvm->lock
> > > before the
> > > matrix_mdev->lock it would be greatly appreciated. Those comments begin with
> > > Message ID <20210727004329.3bcc7d4f.pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Halil Pasic.
> > As far as I'm concerned, we can move forward with this. Was this
> > supposed to go in via Alex's tree?
>
> I am not certain, Christian queued the previous patches related to
> this on:
>
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git/log/?h=fixes
>
> Jason G., since this will need to be integrated with your other patches,
> where should this be queued?

I prefer changes to the vfio stuff go to Alex as we are changing it a
lot as well this cycle.

Jason