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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>, qemu block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	jsnow@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] Limiting coroutine stack usage
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:57:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222105755.GB4147@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c23f28d-ee14-c504-ae13-04414c4b032e@redhat.com>

Am 20.02.2018 um 22:54 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
> On 20/02/2018 18:04, Peter Lieven wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I remember we discussed a long time ago to limit the stack usage of all
> > functions that are executed in a coroutine
> > context to a very low value to be able to safely limit the coroutine
> > stack size as well.
> 
> IIRC the only issue was that hw/ide/atapi.c has mutual recursion between
> ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end -> ide_transfer_start -> ahci_start_transfer ->
> ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end.
> 
> But perhaps it's not an issue, somebody needs to audit the code.

I think John intended to get rid of the recursion sometime, but I doubt
he has had the time so far.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-22 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-20 17:04 [Qemu-devel] Limiting coroutine stack usage Peter Lieven
2018-02-20 21:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-22 10:57   ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2018-02-22 11:01     ` Peter Lieven
2018-02-22 11:32       ` Kevin Wolf
2018-02-22 11:40         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-02-22 11:51           ` Peter Lieven
2018-02-22 12:00             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-02-22 12:02               ` Peter Lieven
2018-02-22 12:03                 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-02-22 12:06                   ` Peter Lieven
2018-02-22 12:16                     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-02-22 12:19                     ` Kevin Wolf
2018-02-22 11:42         ` Peter Lieven
2018-02-22 17:06     ` John Snow
2018-02-23 11:17       ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-03-06 11:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2018-03-07 20:36   ` Peter Lieven
2018-03-08 17:27     ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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