vdpa_sim: replace the spinlock with a mutex to protect the state
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. Suggested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230404131730.45920-1-sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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