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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	<boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/xen/evtchn.c: Check failure for evtchn_make_refcounted()
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:49:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53FF4FA5.4050105@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53FF4702.9020509@gmail.com>

On 28/08/14 16:13, Chen Gang wrote:
> evtchn_make_refcounted() may return failure, so need process the failure
> case. In failure case, it need call unbind_from_irqhandler() just like
> evtchn_unbind_from_user() has done.
> 
> irq_from_evtchn() must be OK when bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler() succeed,
> so need not check it again.
> 
> Also still need remain the closing port code, because when the failure
> occurs, unbind_from_irqhandler() will not close port internally.

None of the evtchn_make_refcounted() failures can occur since we know we
have a valid irq and info at the single call site.

I would like to see this fixed by refactoring the code to remove
evtchn_make_refcounted() by making all irqs for event channels reference
counted.  These no need for this refcounting to be optional.

David


  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-28 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-28 15:13 [PATCH] drivers/xen/evtchn.c: Check failure for evtchn_make_refcounted() Chen Gang
2014-08-28 15:49 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-08-29 13:34   ` Chen Gang
2014-08-29 13:43     ` David Vrabel
2014-08-30  3:39       ` Chen Gang

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