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This opens the path to get rid of the iothread lock on vmexits in KVM mode. On x86, the in-kernel irqchips has to be used because we otherwise need to synchronize APIC and other per-cpu state accesses that could be changed concurrently. Regarding pre/post-run callbacks, s390x and ARM should be fine without specific locking as the callbacks are empty. MIPS and POWER require locking for the pre-run callback. For the handle_exit callback, it is non-empty in x86, POWER and s390. Some POWER cases could do without the locking, but it is left in place for now. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1434646046-27150-7-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>