From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Haskins Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] eventfd: add internal reference counting to fix notifier race conditions Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:26:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4A3FDAF1.6010700@novell.com> References: <4A3D895C.7020605@novell.com> <4A3E7E63.1070407@novell.com> <4A3FABD9.7080108@novell.com> <4A3FC2B1.4050107@novell.com> <20090622184139.GG15228@redhat.com> <20090622190537.GI15228@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4FB972CC3DEBD05729B7D291" Cc: Davide Libenzi , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , avi@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar , Rusty Russell To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: Received: from victor.provo.novell.com ([137.65.250.26]:42529 "EHLO victor.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753427AbZFVT1O (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:27:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090622190537.GI15228@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4FB972CC3DEBD05729B7D291 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:51:42AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > =20 >> A file* based kernel-to-kernel interface is rather wrong IMO. >> =20 > > But eventfd_ctx should work fine. > =20 Yeah, and I guess we can always just say that qemu can't close the fd or something. Seems hacky, but it might work if Davide insists we need his change. -Greg --------------enig4FB972CC3DEBD05729B7D291 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko/2vEACgkQlOSOBdgZUxnW/QCgiquVFMSHNbMvtFfEEuhD32Yu K/QAn08XEfUG3c5JrABiKNVsPuu1yoMG =UnRU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4FB972CC3DEBD05729B7D291--