KVM: Drop kvm->irq_lock lock from irq injection path

The only thing it protects now is interrupt injection into lapic and
this can work lockless. Even now with kvm->irq_lock in place access
to lapic is not entirely serialized since vcpu access doesn't take
kvm->irq_lock.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
index 144e7f60b5e2..fab7440c9bb2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c
@@ -688,10 +688,8 @@ static void __inject_pit_timer_intr(struct kvm *kvm)
         struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
         int i;
 
-        mutex_lock(&kvm->irq_lock);
         kvm_set_irq(kvm, kvm->arch.vpit->irq_source_id, 0, 1);
         kvm_set_irq(kvm, kvm->arch.vpit->irq_source_id, 0, 0);
-        mutex_unlock(&kvm->irq_lock);
 
         /*
          * Provides NMI watchdog support via Virtual Wire mode.