Re: do_domctl and EAGAIN

[Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> Only DOMCTL_destroydomain returns EAGAIN. No domctl returns EINTR.

do_domctl uses ioctl.
ioctl can return EINTR if a signal is caught.

Other hypercalls do return EAGAIN.

Juergen

> 
>  -- Keir
> 
> On 07/04/2009 08:04, "Juergen Gross" <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> certain domctl hypercalls (and possibly others as well) might fail with errno
>> EAGAIN. This case seems to be tested only in very few places, e.g. in
>> xc_domain_destroy.
>>
>> Is there any reason why this case isn't handled in do_domctl?
>> Shouldn't EINTR be handled as well?
>>
>> The other solution would be to have two versions of do_domctl, one of them
>> looping in case of EAGAIN or EINTR.
>>
>> I suspect this lack of errno-testing could lead to very sporadic failures...

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