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

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Jul 17 2012 - 18:28:14 EST


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 04:16:04PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 01:00 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why is this fragile? We could even make it part of a retry so we don't
> call it unless we need to.
>

It just ties in assign and deassign. Maybe it's ok - but pls
add a comment explaining the whole design.

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