Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] xend: pass-through: device state in xenstore may be null

[Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:57:40AM +0800, Cui, Dexuan wrote:
> Hi Tom and Simon,
> The patch looks like a workaround to me.
> Could you please explain under what condition the state may be null?
> 
> On my host I don't meet with the issue, but I did hear the same issue on
> some host and I would look into it when the host is available for me.

Hi Dexuan,

I agree that this looks a lot like a work-around. I was initially very
reluctant to apply it. And I would still be very happy if someone could
find a better solution. My analysis of the problem is as follows:

   What I now think is happening is that for some reason on your system
   when _createDevices() initialises the devices in xenstore using
   _createDevice() then end up with no state entry. Whereas on my system
   then end up with state 3=Initialised.

   It seems to me that actually the behaviour of your system is correct and
   my system is bogus. I really don't know why that is the case - are you
   using the stock xenstore implementation in C, or the Ocaml version?

   In any case, it seems to be that your original work-around was more or
   less correct. I'll just tweak it a bit to handle the case where
   cleanupDevices() is shuffling entries because one or more have been
   deleted and repost it.

   Ref: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-07/msg01082.html

> 
> Thanks,
> -- Dexuan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 2009?7?29? 0:11
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> Subject: [Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] xend: pass-through: device state in xenstore may be null
> 
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
> # Date 1248795146 -3600
> # Node ID 0c7a560822d9d9516dfc83cef6fceec944fd97a8
> # Parent  6120f7a92d82ccb1747feffa1a72eb704e642fb0
> xend: pass-through: device state in xenstore may be null
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rotenberg <tom.rotenberg@gmail.com>
> ---
>  tools/python/xen/xend/server/pciif.py |    6 +++++-
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -r 6120f7a92d82 -r 0c7a560822d9 tools/python/xen/xend/server/pciif.py
> --- a/tools/python/xen/xend/server/pciif.py	Tue Jul 28 16:28:21 2009 +0100
> +++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/server/pciif.py	Tue Jul 28 16:32:26 2009 +0100
> @@ -489,7 +489,11 @@ class PciController(DevController):
>          num_devs = int(self.readBackend(devid, 'num_devs'))
>          new_num_devs = 0
>          for i in range(num_devs):
> -            state = int(self.readBackend(devid, 'state-%i' % i))
> +            try:
> +                state = int(self.readBackend(devid, 'state-%i' % i))
> +            except:
> +                state = xenbusState['Unknown']
> +
>              if state == xenbusState['Closing']:
>                  # Detach I/O resources.
>                  pci_dev = parse_pci_name(self.readBackend(devid, 'dev-%i' % i))
> 
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