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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't take kvm->lock around kvm_for_each_vcpu
Currently the HV KVM code takes the kvm->lock around calls to kvm_for_each_vcpu() and kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() (which can call kvm_for_each_vcpu() internally). However, that leads to a lock order inversion problem, because these are called in contexts where the vcpu mutex is held, but the vcpu mutexes nest within kvm->lock according to Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt. Hence there is a possibility of deadlock. To fix this, we simply don't take the kvm->lock mutex around these calls. This is safe because the implementations of kvm_for_each_vcpu() and kvm_get_vcpu_by_id() have been designed to be able to be called locklessly. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
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