Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] xenbus: delay xenbus frontend resume if xenstored is not running

[Aurelien Chartier <aurelien.chartier@citrix.com>]

On 16/05/13 14:32, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 16.05.13 at 14:34, Aurelien Chartier <aurelien.chartier@citrix.com> wrote:
>> @@ -440,6 +467,13 @@ static int __init xenbus_probe_frontend_init(void)
>>  
>>  	register_xenstore_notifier(&xenstore_notifier);
>>  
>> +	xenbus_frontend_wq = create_workqueue("xenbus_frontend");
>> +	if (!xenbus_frontend_wq) {
>> +		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: create "
>> +		       "xenbus_frontend_workqueue failed\n", __func__);
> pr_err() should be the norm these days.
>
> And personally I consider it quite bad a habit to put function names
> in non-debugging log messages - this doesn't really help with
> anything (as long as the rest of the message is meaningful), but
> clutters the log.
I was using the same format as pciback error handling, but I can switch
to pr_err.

> And finally, you need to do proper error handling here - this code
> can be built as a module, and hence leaving notifier and bus
> registered upon failure sets up the kernel for crashing. Moving
> the code ahead of register_xenstore_notifier() will take care of
> one half of the problem, but you'll nevertheless will need to call
> bus_unregister() if you really intend to make this a fatal error
> condition (which by itself is questionable since in most scenarios
> you won't need the work queue at all).
Right, I will move the error handling to the xenbus frontend resume
function.

Aurelien.