On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:52:20 +0100 Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Now I'm confused. Does that mean we don't need synchronization for this? Regards, Halil