Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] kvm: KVM_EOIFD, an eventfd for EOIs

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:59:16AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 13:21 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 02:33:55PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > +	if (args->flags & KVM_EOIFD_FLAG_LEVEL_IRQFD) {
> > > +		struct _irqfd *irqfd = _irqfd_fdget_lock(kvm, args->irqfd);
> > > +		if (IS_ERR(irqfd)) {
> > > +			ret = PTR_ERR(irqfd);
> > > +			goto fail;
> > > +		}
> > > +
> > > +		gsi = irqfd->gsi;
> > > +		level_irqfd = eventfd_ctx_get(irqfd->eventfd);
> > > +		source = _irq_source_get(irqfd->source);
> > > +		_irqfd_put_unlock(irqfd);
> > > +		if (!source) {
> > > +			ret = -EINVAL;
> > > +			goto fail;
> > > +		}
> > > +	} else {
> > > +		ret = -EINVAL;
> > > +		goto fail;
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&eoifd->list);
> > > +	eoifd->kvm = kvm;
> > > +	eoifd->eventfd = eventfd;
> > > +	eoifd->source = source;
> > > +	eoifd->level_irqfd = level_irqfd;
> > > +	eoifd->notifier.gsi = gsi;
> > > +	eoifd->notifier.irq_acked = eoifd_event;
> > 
> > OK so this means eoifd keeps a reference to the irqfd.
> > And since this is the case, can't we drop the reference counting
> > around source ids now? Everything is referenced through irqfd.
> 
> Holding a reference and using it as a reference count are not the same
> thing.  What if another module holds a reference to this eventfd?  How
> do we do anything on release?

We don't as there is no release, and using kref on source id does not
help: it just never gets invoked.

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MST