From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
To: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Vincent Hanquez <Vincent.Hanquez@eu.citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxenlight: clone context to avoid GC corruption
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:11:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091203151110.GA16650@gwig.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B16E586.7060505@lagarcavilla.com>
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 10:09:10PM +0000, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> Provide a function to clone a context. This is necessary
> because simply copying the structs will eventually
> corrup the GC: maxsize is updated in the cloned context
> but not in the originating one, yet they have the same
> array of referenced pointers alloc_ptrs.
I think this doesn't answer the question of why you need this function
at all. I don't think you should clone the context nor share it.
--
Vincent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-03 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-02 22:09 [PATCH] libxenlight: clone context to avoid GC corruption Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2009-12-03 12:16 ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-12-03 12:20 ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-12-03 13:57 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2009-12-03 14:34 ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-12-03 15:11 ` Vincent Hanquez [this message]
2009-12-03 15:18 ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-12-03 15:18 ` andres
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