[PATCH v1 06/23] vmw_balloon: stop using the balloon_dev_info lock

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Wed Oct 22 19:40:36 AEDT 2025


On 21.10.25 22:57, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 02:59:11PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Let's not piggy-back on the existing lock and use a separate lock for the
>> huge page list.
> 
> which is fine but it is worth documenting that we are also
> no longer disabling interrupts while taking this lock.

Indeed, I'll add

"Now that we use a separate lock, there is no need to disable 
interrupts, so use the non-irqsave variants."

-- 
Cheers

David / dhildenb



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