[SRU bionic] LP#1792099 -- fix vfio device removal deadlocks
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Wed Sep 12 08:50:45 UTC 2018
A customer reports that when performing device hotplug on devices under
vfio. Essentially the kernel is holding a device lock over a userspace
interaction. This userspace interaction may need the same device lock,
leading two threads to deadlock. Drop this lock over the interaction
with userspace and revalidate.
Following this email is a patch for bionic which implements this.
Proposing for SRU to bionic.
-apw
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