Re: [PATCH] xenstored: allow guests to shutdown all of its watches using XS_RESET

[Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>]

On Thu, Aug 25, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Olaf Hering writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] xenstored: allow guests to shutdown all of its watches using XS_RESET"):
> > Add a new XS_RESET command to do the reset on behalf of the guest.
> 
> I'm afraid I still think this is wrong.

There is a later patch XS_RESET_WATCHES.
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00529.html

> * The XS_RESET command as you have it takes too many arguments.  It
>   should probably not take any arguments at all.

The later patch does not take arguments.

> * You have failed to update the specification document which describes
>   the xenstored protocol (in docs/misc/)

The later patch adds the XS_RESET_WATCHES part to the xenstored.txt.

> * Your XS_RESET command doesn't just delete watches and transactions.
>   It also:
>      - discards outstanding responses to earlier commands
>      - discards potential incoming partial commands
>      - resets the ring pointers
>   I don't think any of these things are necessary.  If they are,
>   please explain.  I think you should have your do_reset simply call
>   conn_delete_all_watches and conn_delete_all_transactions.

Thats what the later patch does.

Olaf