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Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] virtio-balloon: unref the iothread when unrealizing


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] virtio-balloon: unref the iothread when unrealizing
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 18:01:42 +0200
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+Stefan/Paolo in case they have a better clue.

On 5/18/20 5:41 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 18.05.20 17:35, Alexander Duyck wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 1:37 AM David Hildenbrand <address@hidden> wrote:

We took a reference when realizing, so let's drop that reference when
unrealizing.

Fixes: c13c4153f76d ("virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_FREE_PAGE_HINT")
Cc: Wei Wang <address@hidden>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <address@hidden>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>
---
  hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c | 1 +
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
index a4fcf2d777..3f8fc50be0 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ static void virtio_balloon_device_unrealize(DeviceState 
*dev)

      if (s->free_page_bh) {
          qemu_bh_delete(s->free_page_bh);
+        object_unref(OBJECT(s->iothread));
          virtio_balloon_free_page_stop(s);
          precopy_remove_notifier(&s->free_page_report_notify);
      }

I'm not entirely sure about this order of operations. It seems like it
would make more sense to remove the notifier, stop the hinting, delete
the bh, and then release the IO thread.

This is the reverse order of the steps in
virtio_balloon_device_realize(). And I guess it should be fine. The
notifier cannot really be active/trigger while we are removing devices
(cannot happen with concurrent migration). After qemu_bh_delete(), the
iothread is effectively unused.

I am unsure about many things regarding free page hinting (e.g., if the
virtio_balloon_free_page_stop() is of any use while we are ripping out
the device and it will be gone in a second).





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