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Subject: Re: [patch-rt] kvm: Convert pvclock_gtod_sync_lock to raw_spinlock_t
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 17:44 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> kvm_make_mclock_inprogress_request() will do zalloc_cpumask_var().
> off-stack zalloc is not yet working but I would like to enable it. Also
> it does a SMP function call.
> 
> Couldn't we go the other way around and drop the local_irq_disable()?

I suppose so.

	-MIke