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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v8 10/19] x86/VPMU: Interface for setting PMU mode and flags
On 07/29/2014 10:31 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
On 07/29/2014 02:19 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 28.07.14 at 19:13, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 07/28/2014 12:36 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 28.07.14 at 18:29, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 07/28/2014 11:22 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 01.07.14 at 16:37, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
+ start = NOW();
+ /*
+ * Note that we may fail here if a CPU is hot-unplugged
while we are
+ * waiting. We will then time out.
+ */
+ while ( atomic_read(&vpmu_sched_counter) != allbutself_num )
+ {
+ /* Give up after 5 seconds */
+ if ( NOW() > start + SECONDS(5) )
+ {
+ printk("vpmu_unload_all: failed to sync\n");
+ ret = -EBUSY;
+ break;
+ }
+ cpu_relax();
+ if ( hypercall_preempt_check() )
+ return hypercall_create_continuation(
+ __HYPERVISOR_xenpmu_op, "ih", XENPMU_mode_set,
arg);
+ }
I wonder whether this is race free (wrt another CPU doing something
similar) and how you expect the 5s timeout above to ever be reached
(you're virtually guaranteed to get asked to preempt earlier).
Race-wise there is xenpmu_mode_lock in the caller (quoted below).
That wasn't my point: I said "something similar" - imagine another
hypercall behaving this same way, and both hypercalls getting
run concurrently.
Isn't it already possible to have two hypercalls doing continuations at
the same time? (Assuming this was your concern)
Yes, it is, and no, this wasn't my concern. My concern is the waiting
for all CPUs by the code you add.
Oh, I see.
After I rework timeout tracking one of the competing hypercalls (this
one, for example), will error out after 5 seconds.
This sentence cannot be parsed.
After timeout tracking is fixed we should error out after 5 seconds
regardless of what the other hypercall is doing.
-boris
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