From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Alex Velazquez <alex.j.velazquez@gmail.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 for-4.6 2/2] libxl: fix the cleanup of the backend path when using driver domains
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:09:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1443006547.10338.229.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1443002816-95720-3-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com>
On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 12:06 +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> With the current libxl implementation the control domain will remove both
> the frontend and the backend xenstore paths of a device that's handled by
> a
> driver domain. This is incorrect, since the driver domain possibly needs
> to
> access the backend path in order to perform the disconnection and cleanup
> of
> the device.
>
> Fix this by making sure the control domain only cleans the frontend path,
> leaving the backend path to be cleaned by the driver domain. Note that if
> the device is not handled by a driver domain the control domain will
> perform
> the removal of both the frontend and the backend paths.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> Reported-by: Alex Velazquez <alex.j.velazquez@gmail.com>
> Cc: Alex Velazquez <alex.j.velazquez@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-23 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-23 10:06 [PATCH v2 for-4.6 0/2] libxl: devd fixes Roger Pau Monne
2015-09-23 10:06 ` [PATCH v2 for-4.6 1/2] libxl: fix devd removal path Roger Pau Monne
2015-09-23 11:08 ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-23 10:06 ` [PATCH v2 for-4.6 2/2] libxl: fix the cleanup of the backend path when using driver domains Roger Pau Monne
2015-09-23 11:09 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-09-23 13:20 ` [PATCH v2 for-4.6 0/2] libxl: devd fixes Wei Liu
2015-09-23 14:10 ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-09-23 15:21 ` Wei Liu
2015-09-24 11:30 ` Ian Campbell
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