Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.kernel > #1642854

Re: [PATCH 08/18] xen/pvcalls: implement connect command

From Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 08/18] xen/pvcalls: implement connect command
Date 2017-05-17 00:00 +0200
Message-ID <tHSFA-2Gq-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <tHuWC-4t8-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <tHuWC-4t8-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <tHuWD-4t8-49@gated-at.bofh.it> <tHAIF-89Z-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <tHRTb-2nV-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


>>> +	ret = xenbus_map_ring_valloc(dev, &req->u.connect.ref, 1, &page);
>>> +	if (ret < 0) {
>>> +		sock_release(map->sock);
>>> +		kfree(map);
>>> +		goto out;
>>> +	}
>>> +	map->ring = page;
>>> +	map->ring_order = map->ring->ring_order;
>>> +	/* first read the order, then map the data ring */
>>> +	virt_rmb();
>>
>> Not sure I understand what the barrier is for here. I don't think compiler
>> will reorder ring_order access with the call.
> It's to avoid using the live version of ring_order to map the data ring
> pages (the other end could be changing that value at any time). We want
> to be sure that the compiler doesn't optimize out map->ring_order and
> use map->ring->ring_order instead.

Wouldn't WRITE_ONCE(map->ring_order, map->ring->ring_order) be the right
primitive then?

And also: if the other side changes ring size, what are we mapping then?
It's obsolete by now.

-boris

>
>
>>> +	if (map->ring_order > MAX_RING_ORDER) {
>>> +		ret = -EFAULT;
>>> +		goto out;
>>> +	}
>> If the barrier is indeed needed this check belongs before it.
> I don't think so, see above.
>
>
>>
>>> +	ret = xenbus_map_ring_valloc(dev, map->ring->ref,
>>> +				     (1 << map->ring_order), &page);
>>> +	if (ret < 0) {
>>> +		sock_release(map->sock);
>>> +		xenbus_unmap_ring_vfree(dev, map->ring);
>>> +		kfree(map);
>>> +		goto out;
>>> +	}
>>> +	map->bytes = page;
>>>

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

[PATCH 01/18] xen: introduce the pvcalls interface header Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 14/18] xen/pvcalls: disconnect and module_exit Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 02/18] xen/pvcalls: introduce the pvcalls xenbus backend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 15/18] xen/pvcalls: introduce the ioworker Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 09/18] xen/pvcalls: implement bind command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 03/18] xen/pvcalls: initialize the module and register the xenbus backend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/18] xen/pvcalls: initialize the module and register the  xenbus backend Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-05-16 03:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/18] xen/pvcalls: initialize the module and register  the xenbus backend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 22:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 03/18] xen/pvcalls: initialize the module and register  the xenbus backend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/18] xen/pvcalls: initialize the module and register the  xenbus backend Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-05-16 08:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/18] xen/pvcalls: initialize the module and register  the xenbus backend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 22:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 03/18] xen/pvcalls: initialize the module and register the  xenbus backend Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-05-17 07:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 03/18] xen/pvcalls: initialize the module and register  the xenbus backend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-18 23:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 03/18] xen/pvcalls: initialize the module and register  the xenbus backend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-20 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH 10/18] xen/pvcalls: implement listen command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 13/18] xen/pvcalls: implement release command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 06/18] xen/pvcalls: handle commands from the frontend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 06/18] xen/pvcalls: handle commands from the frontend Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-05-16 04:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 06/18] xen/pvcalls: handle commands from the frontend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 23:00 +0200
  [PATCH 07/18] xen/pvcalls: implement socket command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 07/18] xen/pvcalls: implement socket command Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-05-16 04:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 07/18] xen/pvcalls: implement socket command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 22:50 +0200
  [PATCH 12/18] xen/pvcalls: implement poll command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 16/18] xen/pvcalls: implement read Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 08/18] xen/pvcalls: implement connect command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 08/18] xen/pvcalls: implement connect command Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-05-16 04:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 08/18] xen/pvcalls: implement connect command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 23:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 08/18] xen/pvcalls: implement connect command Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-05-17 00:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 08/18] xen/pvcalls: implement connect command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-18 21:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 08/18] xen/pvcalls: implement connect command Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-05-18 22:30 +0200
  [PATCH 11/18] xen/pvcalls: implement accept command Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 05/18] xen/pvcalls: connect to a frontend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 05/18] xen/pvcalls: connect to a frontend Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-05-16 04:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 05/18] xen/pvcalls: connect to a frontend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 22:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 05/18] xen/pvcalls: connect to a frontend Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH 04/18] xen/pvcalls: xenbus state handling Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-15 22:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 04/18] xen/pvcalls: xenbus state handling Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-05-16 03:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 04/18] xen/pvcalls: xenbus state handling Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> - 2017-05-16 22:20 +0200

csiph-web