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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Liu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	liu ping fan <qemulist@gmail.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/10] qdev: fix create in place obj's life cycle problem
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:09:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <503BB7E7.4050709@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <503BAAF0.2020103@siemens.com>

On 08/27/2012 10:14 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > 
> > Deregistration is fine, the problem is destruction.
> > 
>
> It isn't as you access memory region states that can change after
> deregistration. Devices can remove memory regions from the mapping,
> alter and then reinsert them. The last to steps must not happen while
> anyone is still using a reference to that region.
>

Why not?  If the guest is accessing an mmio region while reconfiguring
it in a way that changes its meaning, either the previous or the next
meaning is valid.

It is true that memory_region_set_enabled(..., false) will become weaker
as a result.  Code will have to be prepared for that.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-27 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-24  9:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] rework on hot unplug Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/10] qom: add, remove of link property need to ref, unref its target Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24 14:52   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/10] qdev: change iterator callback seq Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/10] qom: export object_property_is_child, object_property_is_link Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24 14:51   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-25  7:43     ` liu ping fan
2012-08-25  8:04   ` Blue Swirl
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/10] qdev: introduce new interface to remove composite sub-tree Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/10] qdev: finalize of qbus, qdev will not the right place to free children Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24 14:50   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] qom: expose object_property_del_child Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24 14:44   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] unplug: using new intf qdev_delete_subtree in acpi_piix_eject_slot Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24 10:24   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-25  7:05     ` liu ping fan
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/10] qdev: rename qdev_unplug to qdev_unplug_req Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24 14:48   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/10] mon: release dev's ref hold by qdev_get_peripheral Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24  9:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/10] qdev: fix create in place obj's life cycle problem Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-24 14:42   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-25  7:42     ` liu ping fan
2012-08-27  7:01       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-27  7:47         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27  8:17           ` liu ping fan
2012-08-27  8:27             ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27 17:09           ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-27 17:14             ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27 18:09               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-08-27 18:17                 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27 18:20                   ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-27 18:39                     ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27 18:52                       ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-27 19:38                         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27 20:53                           ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-28  1:01                             ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-29 17:13                               ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-29 17:21                                 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-29 17:27                                   ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-29 17:41                                     ` Jan Kiszka
2012-09-03  9:09                                       ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-28  3:09                           ` liu ping fan
2012-08-28  3:38                             ` liu ping fan
2012-08-28  9:42                               ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-28 10:05                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-29 17:23                                 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-29 17:30                                   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-29 17:40                                     ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-29 17:49                                       ` Jan Kiszka
2012-09-01  8:31                                         ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-01  8:57                                           ` Jan Kiszka
2012-09-01  9:30                                             ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-30  5:54                                       ` liu ping fan
2012-08-30  7:08                                         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-30  7:47                                           ` liu ping fan
2012-09-01  8:46                                           ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-03  7:44                                             ` liu ping fan
2012-09-03  8:52                                               ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-03 10:06                                                 ` liu ping fan
2012-09-03 10:16                                                   ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-04  2:33                                                     ` liu ping fan
2012-09-04  2:34                                                   ` liu ping fan
2012-09-05  8:19                                                     ` liu ping fan
2012-09-05  9:52                                                       ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-05 10:36                                                         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-09-05 10:53                                                           ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-05 11:11                                                             ` Jan Kiszka
2012-09-05 11:25                                                               ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-05 12:02                                                                 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-09-05 12:17                                                                   ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-27 13:19   ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-27 15:02     ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27 15:14       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-27 15:26         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27 16:24           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-27 16:59             ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27 18:35             ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-27 19:17               ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-27 19:22                 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-27 20:58                 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-27 21:34                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-27 18:27     ` Avi Kivity

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