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From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: "Ling, Xiaofeng" <xiaofeng.ling@intel.com>
Subject: Should shadow_lock be spin_lock_recursive?
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:42:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4282441E.6080900@intel.com> (raw)


During our testing, we found this code path where xen attempts to grab 
the shadow_lock, while holding it - leading to a deadlock.

 >> free_dom_mem->
 >> shadow_sync_and_drop_references->
 >> shadow_lock -> ..................... first lock
 >> shadow_remove_all_access->
 >> remove_all_access_in_page->
 >> put_page->
 >> free_domheap_pages->
 >> shadow_drop_references->
 >> shadow_lock -> ..................... second lock

Questions:

- should shadow lock be recursive?
- is shadow lock too coarse grained? It seems to have led to a lot of 
code refactoring (__foo without lock and foo with lock). But there may 
be more such instances we haven't found yet.

	-Arun

             reply	other threads:[~2005-05-11 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-11 17:42 Arun Sharma [this message]
2005-05-12  1:57 ` Should shadow_lock be spin_lock_recursive? Xiaofeng Ling
2005-05-12  7:57   ` Keir Fraser
2005-05-12 12:59   ` Michael A Fetterman
2005-05-13 22:40     ` Arun Sharma

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