From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adin Scannell Subject: [PATCH] Only retry mapping pages when ENOENT is returned Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:55:20 -0500 Message-ID: <14d42c7d8e0817040186.1324094120@dev.gridcentric.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org # HG changeset patch # User Adin Scannell # Date 1324094033 18000 # Node ID 14d42c7d8e0817040186cd01c46f034999fc5dff # Parent 9dcc8557a0cb676b84e6788e03ab596bcfda7143 Only retry mapping pages when ENOENT is returned If the return value from the ioctl() is not ENOENT, it's possible that err[i] will not be updated and libxc will just loop forever. Although it's unlikely that err[i] would not be updated after the ioctl() gets through at least once, it's better to be defensive. diff -r 9dcc8557a0cb -r 14d42c7d8e08 tools/libxc/xc_linux_osdep.c --- a/tools/libxc/xc_linux_osdep.c +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_linux_osdep.c @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static void *linux_privcmd_map_foreign_b do { usleep(100); rc = ioctl(fd, IOCTL_PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH_V2, &ioctlx); - } while ( rc < 0 && err[i] == -ENOENT ); + } while ( rc < 0 && errno == ENOENT && err[i] == -ENOENT ); } }