Re: [Xen-devel] [[PATCH -v2]] XenBus: Don't wait for the producer to fill the ring if

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

On 24/05/2017 15:16, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 23/05/17 16:14, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > On 23.05.17 at 16:12, <anshul.makkar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The condition: if there is a space in the ring then wait for the producer
> > > to fill the ring also evaluates to true even if the ring if full. It
> > > leads to a deadlock where producer is waiting for consumer
> > > to consume the items and consumer is waiting for producer to fill the ring.
> > >
> > > Fix for the issue: check if the ring is full and then break from
> > > the loop to consume the items from the ring.
> > > eg. case: prod = 1272, cons = 248.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Anshul Makkar <anshul.makkar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Julien,
> >
> > do you want to consider this for 4.9?
> I'd agree with including this in 4.9
Release-acked-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

Cheers,

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Julien Grall

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