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From: Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>
To: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	mttcg@greensocs.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	fred.konrad@greensocs.com, a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com,
	cota@braap.org, bobby.prani@gmail.com
Cc: mark.burton@greensocs.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com,
	rth@twiddle.net, peter.maydell@linaro.org,
	claudio.fontana@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Safe watch and breakpoint manipulation
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:55:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5767F5CA.2020200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72b6283d-998b-f2d7-9037-a3896c1c9423@redhat.com>

On 17/06/16 20:01, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> On 17/06/2016 18:33, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> First we move the break/watchpoints into an array which is more
>> amenable to RCU control that the QLIST. We then control the life time
>> of references to break/watchpoint data by removing long held
>> references in the target code and getting information when needed from
>> the core. Then we stop dynamically allocation the watch/breakpoint
>> data and store it directly in the array which makes iteration across
>> the list a bit more cache friendly than referenced pointers. Finally
>> addition and removal of elements of the array is put under RCU
>> control. This ensures there is always a safe array of data to check
>> in the run-loop.
> I'm not sure why you say that arrays are more amenable than QTAILQ
> (though indeed include/qemu/rcu_queue.h only includes QLIST for now),
> but I feel bad asking you to redo all the work...

Is there any realistic way to manage *doubly* linked lists in RCU?

Kind regards,
Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-20 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-17 16:33 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Safe watch and breakpoint manipulation Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/7] cpu: move break/watchpoints into arrays Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:03   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/7] exec: keep CPUWatchpoint references internal Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:17   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 3/7] exec: keep CPUBreakpoint " Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 4/7] break/watchpoints: store inside array Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:15   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 5/7] breakpoints: put breakpoints under RCU control Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 16:59   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 6/7] linux-user: don't clone watchpoints Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:18   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 7/7] watchpoints: put watchpoints under RCU control Alex Bennée
2016-06-17 17:10   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-17 17:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Safe watch and breakpoint manipulation Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-20 13:55   ` Sergey Fedorov [this message]
2016-06-20 14:25     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-20 15:23       ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-20 15:49 ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-20 16:08   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-06-20 16:27     ` Alex Bennée
2016-06-20 18:16       ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-20 18:19     ` Sergey Fedorov

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