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From: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@gmail.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	avi@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	davidel@xmailserver.org, mingo@elte.hu, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: Fix races in irqfd using new eventfd_kref_get interface
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:55:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A40ECFF.7060706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3FBFF1.8050504@gmail.com>

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Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>   
>
>>  And note that multiple works can run on irqfd
>> in parallel.
>>   
>>     
>
> They can?  I thought work-queue items were guaranteed to only schedule
> once?  If what you say is true, its broken, I agree, and Ill need to
> revisit.  Let me get back to you.
>   

<sigh> Yep, you are right.  This is broken in my code. :(

Will address in the next spin.  Good catch.

-Greg




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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23 14:56 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
2009-06-22 18:41             ` Davide Libenzi
2009-06-22 18:52               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-23 14:55       ` Gregory Haskins [this message]

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