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Re: [PATCH v1 1/7] xen-block: Do not write frontend nodes


  • To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:32:05 +0000
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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH v1 1/7] xen-block: Do not write frontend nodes

Hi David,

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 11 November 2023 16:51:22 GMT-05:00, Andrew Cooper 
> <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>On 11/11/2023 8:18 pm, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>> On 11 November 2023 08:43:40 GMT-05:00, Andrew Cooper 
>>> <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Furthermore, the control domain doesn't always have the domid of 0.
>>>>
>>>> If qemu wants/needs to make changes like this, the control domain has to
>>>> arrange for qemu's domain to have appropriate permissions on the nodes.
>>> Right. And that's simple enough: if you are running QEMU in a
>>> domain which doesn't have permission to create the backend
>>> directory and/or the frontend nodes, don't ask it to *create*
>>> devices. In that case it is only able to connect as the backend for
>>> devices which were created *for* it by the toolstack.
>>>
>>> The criterion used in this patch series should be "did QEMU create this 
>>> device, or discover it".
>>>
>>
>>Yeah, that sounds like the right approach.
>
> I think we want to kill the xen_backend_set_device() function and
> instead set the backend as a property of the XenDevice *before*
> realizing it.

Not sure that I got this. Right now device is property of
XenBackendInstance. Are you proposing to make this other way around?

Right now I am looking for a place where to store the information of
XenDevice creator. My plan was to add "found_in_xenbus" property to
XenDevice and set it in xen_backend_device_create.

-- 
WBR, Volodymyr


 


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