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Re: [PATCH] xen-bus/block: explicitly assign event channels to an AioCon


From: Julien Grall
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-bus/block: explicitly assign event channels to an AioContext
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:22:14 +0000
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Hi Anthony,

On 19/12/2019 17:11, Anthony PERARD wrote:
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 02:34:51PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
It is not safe to close an event channel from the QEMU main thread when
that channel's poller is running in IOThread context.

This patch adds a new xen_device_set_event_channel_context() function
to explicitly assign the channel AioContext, and modifies
xen_device_bind_event_channel() to initially assign the channel's poller
to the QEMU main thread context. The code in xen-block's dataplane is
then modified to assign the channel to IOThread context during
xen_block_dataplane_start() and de-assign it during in
xen_block_dataplane_stop(), such that the channel is always assigned
back to main thread context before it is closed. aio_set_fd_handler()
already deals with all the necessary synchronization when moving an fd
between AioContext-s so no extra code is needed to manage this.

Reported-by: Julien Grall <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <address@hidden>

I can't find the patch in QEMU upstream. Are we missing any ack/review for this patch?


Tested against an HVM debian guest with a QCOW2 image as system disk, and
as a hot-plugged/unplgged secondary disk.

And I've run an osstest flight with the patch.

Thanks,


Cheers,

--
Julien Grall



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