Re: [PATCH] kvm: don't take vcpu mutex for obviously invalid vcpu ioctls

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 03:58:16PM -0700, David Matlack wrote:
> > Should not be executing vcpu ioctls without interrupt KVM_RUN in the
> > first place.
> 
> This patch is trying to be nice to code that isn't aware it's
> probing kvm file descriptors. We saw long hangs with some generic
> process inspection code that was probing all open file descriptors.
> There's no reason non-kvm ioctls should have to wait for the vcpu
> mutex to become available just to fail.

OK then, please add the usecase to the changelog.

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