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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Tom Kopec <tek@acm.org>,
	Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Fix lost interrupt race in Xen	 event channels
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:38:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7CBF75020000780001308A@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7BDE0F.1010305@goop.org>

 >>> On 30.08.10 at 18:36, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> On 08/30/2010 01:03 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> For us, using fasteoi, move_native_irq() sits in ->eoi(), before
>> un-masking. One could, as Jeremy suggests, call move_masked_irq()
>> here, but I didn't want to duplicate the IRQ_DISABLED check done
>> in move_native_irq(), mainly to not depend on following potential
>> future changes (additions) to the set of conditions checked there.
> 
> Is there actually a problem with moving a IRQ_DISABLED interrupt?  If
> so, shouldn't that IRQ_DISABLED check also be in move_masked_irq()?

I don't know, all I do know is that it initially wasn't that way, but got
changed to this at some point. Maybe it's more like being pointless
to move a disabled interrupt?

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-24 21:35 [GIT PULL] Fix lost interrupt race in Xen event channels Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-25  7:52 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2010-08-25 10:04   ` Daniel Stodden
2010-08-25 11:24     ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-25 17:54   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-26  6:46     ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-26 16:32       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-27  8:56         ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-27 20:43           ` Daniel Stodden
2010-08-27 21:49             ` Daniel Stodden
2010-08-27 23:43             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-30  8:03             ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-30  8:43               ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-30  8:48                 ` Keir Fraser
2010-08-30  9:06                   ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-30  9:15                     ` Keir Fraser
2010-08-30  9:22                       ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-30 16:36               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-31  6:38                 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2010-09-03 18:46   ` Using handle_fasteoi_irq for pirqs Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-06  7:58     ` Jan Beulich
2010-09-07  1:53       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-07  6:58         ` Jan Beulich
2010-09-07  8:02           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-07  8:58             ` Jan Beulich

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