xen: disable PV spinlocks on HVM
authorStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:41:47 +0000 (17:41 +0100)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Thu, 8 Sep 2011 17:59:06 +0000 (13:59 -0400)
commitf10cd522c5fbfec9ae3cc01967868c9c2401ed23
treefbcc48f2b46934a1ea3ec9f4807e6c32b868cc9c
parented467e69f16e6b480e2face7bc5963834d025f91
xen: disable PV spinlocks on HVM

PV spinlocks cannot possibly work with the current code because they are
enabled after pvops patching has already been done, and because PV
spinlocks use a different data structure than native spinlocks so we
cannot switch between them dynamically. A spinlock that has been taken
once by the native code (__ticket_spin_lock) cannot be taken by
__xen_spin_lock even after it has been released.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
arch/x86/xen/smp.c