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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.5 1/8] xen/arm: irq: move gic {, un}lock in gic_set_irq_properties



On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 16:43 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> The function gic_set_irq_properties is only called in two places:
>     - gic_route_irq: the gic.lock is only taken for the call to the
>     former function.
>     - gic_route_irq_to_guest: the gic.lock is taken for the duration of
>     the function. But the lock is only useful when gic_set_irq_properties.
> 
> So we can safely move the lock in gic_set_irq_properties and restrict the
> critical section for the gic.lock in gic_route_irq_to_guest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

Although ISTR Stefano saying he had got rid of the lock altogether. I'll
let you to battle that one out ;-)



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