From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@gmail.com>,
Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
avi@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: Fix races in irqfd using new eventfd_kref_get interface
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:32:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090622183222.GF15228@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906221105500.10952@makko.or.mcafeemobile.com>
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:11:12AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> > Not really, it's impossible to document all races one have thought
> > about and avoided.
>
> Well, when some new code has non-trivial locking/racing logics, you better
> document it as clearly as possible, akpm announced time ago.
Absolutely. But IMO documentation in the form of "fields A B C are
protected by lock X" in a single place near field declaration is better
than "we take lock X here to protect against race with user thread using
fields A B C" sprinkled all over the code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-22 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-22 16:05 [KVM PATCH v3 0/3] irqfd/eventfd fixes Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 16:05 ` [KVM PATCH v3 1/3] kvm: prepare irqfd for having interrupts disabled during eventfd->release Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 16:05 ` [KVM PATCH v3 2/3] eventfd: add internal reference counting to fix notifier race conditions Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 16:05 ` [KVM PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: Fix races in irqfd using new eventfd_kref_get interface Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 16:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-22 17:31 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 17:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-22 18:03 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-22 18:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-22 18:11 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-06-22 18:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-06-22 18:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-06-22 18:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-23 14:55 ` Gregory Haskins
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