Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] kvm: Extend irqfd to support level interrupts

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Jul 17 2012 - 17:59:50 EST


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 03:57:41PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 00:26 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 02:33:47PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > @@ -96,6 +183,9 @@ irqfd_shutdown(struct work_struct *work)
> > > * It is now safe to release the object's resources
> > > */
> > > eventfd_ctx_put(irqfd->eventfd);
> > > +
> > > + _irq_source_put(irqfd->source);
> > > +
> > > kfree(irqfd);
> > > }
> > >
> >
> > Hang on, this is a bug I think. This is done asynchronously. So this
> > means that I can assign MAX number of irqfds, then close one, and now
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What is this?
> Do you mean max irq source ids?

Yes, this is what I meant. Sorry about being unclear.

> > assign will fail because deassign did not get freed.
> >
> > Maybe we can solve this by flushing wq before assign?
> > Looks a bit fragile but may be enough - need to document well.
> >
>
>
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