[PATCH v2 06/23] vmw_balloon: stop using the balloon_dev_info lock
David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
david at kernel.org
Thu Jan 15 23:26:27 AEDT 2026
On 1/15/26 13:21, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 10:19:56AM +0100, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
>> Let's not piggy-back on the existing lock and use a separate lock for the
>> huge page list. Now that we use a separate lock, there is no need to
>> disable interrupts, so use the non-irqsave variants.
>
> Why can we avoid disabling interrupts in this case?
It's a leftover from using the old lock that required this.
Thanks!
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Cheers
David
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