[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: schedule: allow dom0 vCPUs to be re-pinned when dom0_vcpus_pin is set
>>> On 05.12.12 at 16:59, Matt Wilson <msw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:44:04AM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 05/12/12 06:02, Matt Wilson wrote: >> > An administrator may want Xen to pin dom0 vCPUs to pCPUs 1:1 at boot, >> > but still have the flexibility to change the configuration later. >> > There's no logic that keys off of domain->is_pinned outside of >> > sched_init_vcpu() and vcpu_set_affinity(). By adjusting the >> > is_pinned_vcpu() macro to only check for a single CPU set in the >> > cpu_affinity mask, dom0 vCPUs can safely be re-pinned after the system >> > boots. >> >> Sadly this patch will break things. There are certain callers of >> is_pinned_vcpu() which rely on the value to allow access to certain >> power related MSRs, which is where the requirement for never permitting >> an update of the affinity mask comes from. > > If this is true, the existing is_pinned_vcpu() test is broken: > > #define is_pinned_vcpu(v) ((v)->domain->is_pinned || \ > cpumask_weight((v)->cpu_affinity) == 1) > > It's && not ||. So if someone pins dom0 vCPUs to pCPUs 1:1 after boot, > the MSR traps will suddenly start working. > > See commit: http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=cc0854dd I don't see what's wrong here. Certain things merely require the pCPU that a vCPU runs on to be stable, which is what the test above is for. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
|
Lists.xenproject.org is hosted with RackSpace, monitoring our |