Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] xenbus: delay xenbus frontend resume if xenstored is not running

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 03:59:48PM +0100, Aurelien Chartier wrote:
> On 16/05/13 14:32, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>> On 16.05.13 at 14:34, Aurelien Chartier <aurelien.chartier@citrix.com> wrote:
> >> @@ -440,6 +467,13 @@ static int __init xenbus_probe_frontend_init(void)
> >>  
> >>  	register_xenstore_notifier(&xenstore_notifier);
> >>  
> >> +	xenbus_frontend_wq = create_workqueue("xenbus_frontend");
> >> +	if (!xenbus_frontend_wq) {
> >> +		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: create "
> >> +		       "xenbus_frontend_workqueue failed\n", __func__);
> > pr_err() should be the norm these days.
> >
> > And personally I consider it quite bad a habit to put function names
> > in non-debugging log messages - this doesn't really help with
> > anything (as long as the rest of the message is meaningful), but
> > clutters the log.
> I was using the same format as pciback error handling, but I can switch
> to pr_err.
> 
> > And finally, you need to do proper error handling here - this code
> > can be built as a module, and hence leaving notifier and bus
> > registered upon failure sets up the kernel for crashing. Moving
> > the code ahead of register_xenstore_notifier() will take care of
> > one half of the problem, but you'll nevertheless will need to call
> > bus_unregister() if you really intend to make this a fatal error
> > condition (which by itself is questionable since in most scenarios
> > you won't need the work queue at all).
> Right, I will move the error handling to the xenbus frontend resume
> function.

Any ETA when the v5 with these changes will be posted? Thanks.
> 
> Aurelien.
> 
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