Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:33:29 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] VFIO fix for v5.8-rc7 |
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 7:34 AM Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote: > > VFIO fixes for v5.8-rc7 > > - Fix race with eventfd ctx cleared outside of mutex (Zeng Tao)
Why does this take and then re-take the lock immediately? That just looks insane.
I realize that this isn't likely to be a performance-critical path, but this is a basic source cleanliness issue. Doing silly things is silly, and shouldn't be done, even if they don't matter.
Linus
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