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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>
To: paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Gregory Haskins <gregory.haskins@gmail•com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat•com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat•com>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell•com>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, agraf@suse•de,
	pmullaney@novell•com, pmorreale@novell•com,
	anthony@codemonkey•ws, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	kvm@vger•kernel.org, bhutchings@solarflare•com,
	andi@firstfloor•org, gregkh@suse•de, herber@gondor•apana.org.au,
	chrisw@sous-sol•org, shemminger@vyatta•com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/19] virtual-bus
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:25:57 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906060025.57961.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090605053010.GD7125@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 03:00:10 pm Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:25:01PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > +	/* lg->eventfds is RCU-protected */
> > +	preempt_disable();
>
> Suggest changing to rcu_read_lock() to match the synchronize_rcu().

Ah yes, much better.  As I was implementing it I warred with myself since
lguest aims for simplicity above all else.  But since we only ever add things
to the array, RCU probably is simpler.

> > +	for (i = 0; i < cpu->lg->num_eventfds; i++) {
> > +		if (cpu->lg->eventfds[i].addr == cpu->pending_notify) {
> > +			eventfd_signal(cpu->lg->eventfds[i].event, 1);
>
> Shouldn't this be something like the following?
>
> 		p = rcu_dereference(cpu->lg->eventfds);
> 		if (p[i].addr == cpu->pending_notify) {
> 			eventfd_signal(p[i].event, 1);

Hmm, need to read num_eventfds first, too.  It doesn't matter if we get the old
->num_eventfds and the new ->eventfds, but the other way around would be bad.

Here's the inter-diff:

diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
--- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c
@@ -39,18 +39,24 @@ static int break_guest_out(struct lg_cpu
 
 bool send_notify_to_eventfd(struct lg_cpu *cpu)
 {
-	unsigned int i;
+	unsigned int i, num;
+	struct lg_eventfds *eventfds;
+
+	/* Make sure we grab the total number before accessing the array. */
+	cpu->lg->num_eventfds = num;
+	rmb();
 
 	/* lg->eventfds is RCU-protected */
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	for (i = 0; i < cpu->lg->num_eventfds; i++) {
-		if (cpu->lg->eventfds[i].addr == cpu->pending_notify) {
-			eventfd_signal(cpu->lg->eventfds[i].event, 1);
+	eventfds = rcu_dereference(cpu->lg->eventfds);
+	for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
+		if (eventfds[i].addr == cpu->pending_notify) {
+			eventfd_signal(eventfds[i].event, 1);
 			cpu->pending_notify = 0;
 			break;
 		}
 	}
-	preempt_enable();
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return cpu->pending_notify == 0;
 }
 
Thanks!
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-05 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-09 16:30 [RFC PATCH v2 00/19] virtual-bus Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:30 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/19] shm-signal: shared-memory signals Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:30 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/19] vbus: add virtual-bus definitions Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:30 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/19] vbus: add connection-client helper infrastructure Gregory Haskins
2009-06-04 18:06   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-04 18:18     ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-04 18:24       ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-04 18:30         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-04 19:04           ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-04 18:23     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/19] vbus: add bus-registration notifiers Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/19] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for vbus_driver objects Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/19] ioq: Add basic definitions for a shared-memory, lockless queue Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/19] ioq: add vbus helpers Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/19] venet: add the ABI definitions for an 802.x packet interface Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/19] net: Add vbus_enet driver Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:37   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-09 19:50     ` Greg KH
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/19] venet-tap: Adds a "venet" compatible "tap" device to VBUS Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/19] venet: add scatter-gather support Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/19] venettap: " Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/19] x86: allow the irq->vector translation to be determined outside of ioapic Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 14/19] kvm: add a reset capability Gregory Haskins
2009-04-11 16:56   ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-09 16:32 ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/19] kvm: add dynamic IRQ support Gregory Haskins
2009-04-11 17:01   ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-13 17:44     ` Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:32 ` [RFC PATCH v2 16/19] kvm: Add VBUS support to the host Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:32 ` [RFC PATCH v2 17/19] kvm: Add guest-side support for VBUS Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:32 ` [RFC PATCH v2 18/19] vbus: add a userspace connector Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:32 ` [RFC PATCH v2 19/19] virtio: add a vbus transport Gregory Haskins
2009-08-09 16:40   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-10 15:40     ` Gregory Haskins
2009-04-09 16:48 ` [RFC PATCH v2 00/19] virtual-bus Gregory Haskins
2009-04-11 16:45   ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-04 18:49     ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-05  4:55       ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-05  5:30         ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-06-05 14:55           ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-06-05 16:25             ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-06-05 11:56         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-05 12:53           ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-05 12:54             ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-05 14:35           ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-05 14:44             ` Gregory Haskins

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