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    Drivers: hv: utils: run polling callback always in interrupt context · 3cace4a6
    Olaf Hering authored
    All channel interrupts are bound to specific VCPUs in the guest
    at the point channel is created. While currently, we invoke the
    polling function on the correct CPU (the CPU to which the channel
    is bound to) in some cases we may run the polling function in
    a non-interrupt context. This  potentially can cause an issue as the
    polling function can be interrupted by the channel callback function.
    Fix the issue by running the polling function on the appropriate CPU
    at interrupt level. Additional details of the issue being addressed by
    this patch are given below:
    
    Currently hv_fcopy_onchannelcallback is called from interrupts and also
    via the ->write function of hv_utils. Since the used global variables to
    maintain state are not thread safe the state can get out of sync.
    This affects the variable state as well as the channel inbound buffer.
    
    As suggested by KY adjust hv_poll_channel to always run the given
    callback on the cpu which the channel is bound to. This avoids the need
    for locking because all the util services are single threaded and only
    one transaction is active at any given point in time.
    
    Additionally, remove the context variable, they will always be the same as
    recv_channel.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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