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The spinlock we use to protect the state of the simulator is sometimes held for a long time (for example, when devices handle requests). This also prevents us from calling functions that might sleep (such as kthread_flush_work() in the next patch), and thus having to release and retake the lock. For these reasons, let's replace the spinlock with a mutex that gives us more flexibility.

Let's move work management inside the vdpa_sim core. This way we can easily change how we manage the works, without having to change the devices each time. Acked-by: Eugenio P??rez Martin <eperezma at redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare at redhat.com> --- drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.h | 3 ++-

v2: - rebased on Linus' tree, commit ae3419fbac84 ("vc_screen: don't clobber return value in vcs_read") - removed `struct task_struct *owner` param (unused for now, maybe ?useful to support cgroups) [Jason] - add unbind_mm callback [Jason] - call the new unbind_mm callback during the release [Jason] - avoid to call bind_mm callback after the reset, since the device ?is not

This series adds support for the use of user virtual addresses in the vDPA simulator devices. The main reason for this change is to lift the pinning of all guest memory. Especially with virtio devices implemented in software. The next step would be to generalize the code in vdpa-sim to allow the implementation of in-kernel software devices. Similar to vhost, but using vDPA so we can reuse the