Re: [PATCH 1/1] Xen ARINC 653 Scheduler (updated to add support for CPU pools)

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>]

On 16/06/2010 17:14, "George Dunlap" <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:

>>  I actually tried the xmalloc() method first.  I found that when the
>> .adjust_global function was called, the address of the "ops" data structure
>> passed to that function was different from the address of the "ops" data
>> structure when the .init function was called.  I wanted to use .adjust_global
>> to modify the data structure that was created when the .init function was
>> called, but I could not figure out a way to get the address of the second
>> data structure.  Suggestions?
> 
> It's been a month or two since I trawled through the cpupools code;
> but I seem to recall that .init is called twice -- once for the
> "default pool" (cpupool0), and once for an actually in-use pool.
> (Juergen, can you correct me if I'm wrong?)  Is it possible that
> that's the difference in the pointers that you're seeing?

Oh yes, that was the old behaviour. I took a hatchet to the
scheduler/cpupool interfaces a few weeks ago and now we should only
initialise the scheduler once, unless extra cpupools are manually created.
The fact that Kathy is seeing two different ops structures probably
indicates that her xen-unstable tree is very out of date. Which may also
mean that the patch will not apply to current tip.

 -- Keir