On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:51:27 +0100 Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:22:07 +0100 > Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > When we get a solicited interrupt, the start function may have > > been cleared by a csch, but we still have a channel program > > structure allocated. Make it safe to call the cp accessors in > > any case, so we can call them unconditionally. > > I read this like it is supposed to be safe regardless of > parallelism and threads. However I don't see any explicit > synchronization done for cp->initialized. > > I've managed to figure out how is that supposed to be safe > for the cp_free() (which is probably our main concern) in > vfio_ccw_sch_io_todo(), but if fail when it comes to the one > in vfio_ccw_mdev_notifier(). > > Can you explain us how does the synchronization work? You read that wrong, I don't add synchronization, I just add a check.