Re: [Xen-devel] RCU locks in Xen!

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

complete_domain_destroy() is called via call_rcu().

 -- Keir

On 24/02/2009 02:53, "Jayaraman, Bhaskar" <Bhaskar.Jayaraman@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I see that rcu locks in Xen code are empty or in other words do nothing, and
> even rcu_dereference also doesn¹t assign pointers through a temporary
> variable. So is it possible that while domain destruction, while I¹m
> traversing through the domain_hash, list as in rcu_lock_domain_by_id(), I
> could end up with an invalid pointer?
> This is because I see that domain_destroy simply calls complete_domain_destroy
> which frees up the domain pointer and it seems like it could be possible that
> while traversing through the hash list in rcu_lock_domain_by_id I could end up
> with a domain pointer which domain_destroy might have just destroyed and I
> can¹t proceed further down the list.
>  
> Please let me know if there¹s something else that I¹m overlooking and if not
> then how come we don¹t see domains/Xen crashing because of this caveat.
>  
> Regards,
> Bhaskar.
> 



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