Re: [PATCH 3/3] Xen physical cpus interface

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:12:13PM +0000, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
> Liu, Jinsong wrote:
> > Just notice your reply (so quick :)
> > 
> > Agree and will update later, except 1 concern below.
> > 
> > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hmm, it's good if it's convenient to do it automatically via
> >>> dev->release. However, dev container (pcpu) would be free at some
> >>> other error cases, so I prefer do it 'manually'.
> >> 
> >> You could also call pcpu_release(..) to do it manually.
> >> 
> > 
> > that means kfree(pcpu) would be done twice at some error cases, do
> > you think it really good? 
> > 
> 
> Ping.
> 
> I think error recovery should be kept inside error logic level itself, if try to recover upper level error would bring trouble.
> 
> In our example, there are 2 logic levels:
> pcpu level (as container), and dev level (subfield used for sys)

So you need to untangle free_pcpu from doing both. Meaning one does the
SysFS and the other deals with free-ing the structure and removing itself
from the list.


> dev->release should only recover error occurred at dev/sys level, and the pcpu error should be recovered at pcpu level.
> 
> If dev->release try to recover its container pcpu level error, like list_del/kfree(pcpu), it would make confusing. i.e., considering pcpu_sys_create(), 2 error cases:
> device_register fail, and device_create_file fail --> how can the caller decide kfree(pcpu) or not?

Then you should free it manually. But you can do this by a wrapper
function:

__pcpu_release(..) {
	..
	/* Does the removing itself from the list and kfree the pcpu */
}
pcpu_release(..) {
	struct pcpcu *p= container_of(..)
	__pcpu_release(p);
}

dev->release = &pcpu_release;

> 
> So how about recover pcpu error manually and explicitly?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jinsong