Re: [PATCH 1/2] kvm: use modern cpumask primitives, no cpumask_t on stack

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Monday 08 December 2008 20:19:57 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> >> Btw, for the general case, instead of forcing everyone to duplicate, how 
> >> about:
> >>
> >> cpumask_var_t cpus;
> >>
> >> with_cpumask(cpus) {
> >>    ... code to populate cpus
> >>    smp_call_function_some(...);
> >> } end_with_cpumask(cpus);
> >>
> >> Where with_cpumask() allocates cpus, and uses a mutex + static fallback 
> >> on failure.
> >>     
> >
> > I'd prefer not to hide deadlocks that way :(
> >
> > I'll re-battle with that code to neaten it.  There are only a few places
> > which have these kind of issues.
> >
> >   
> 
> cpuvar_get_maybe_mutex_lock(...);
> ...
> cpuvar_put_maybe_mutex_unlock(...);

My thought was something like:

/* This is an empty struct for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. */
static struct cpuvar_with_mutex_fallback fallback;

...
	cpumask_var_t tmp;

	cpuvar_alloc_fallback(&tmp, &fallback);
	...
	cpuvar_free_fallback(tmp, &fallback);

We may get there eventually, but so far I've managed to produce
less horrendous code in every case.

Cheers,
Rusty.