On Wed, 15 May 2019 15:43:23 +0200
Michael Mueller <mimu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 13.05.19 14:20, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:32:45 +0200
> > Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hypervisor needs to interact with the summary indicators, so these
> >> need to be DMA memory as well (at least for protected virtualization
> >> guests).
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
> >> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > (...)
> >
> >> @@ -237,7 +243,8 @@ static void virtio_airq_handler(struct airq_struct *airq)
> >> read_unlock(&info->lock);
> >> }
> >>
> >> -static struct airq_info *new_airq_info(void)
> >> +/* call with drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.cheld */
> >
> > Hm, where is airq_areas_lock defined? If it was introduced in one of
> > the previous patches, I have missed it.
>
> There is no airq_areas_lock defined currently. My assumption is that
> this will be used in context with the likely race condition this
> part of the patch is talking about.
>
> @@ -273,8 +281,9 @@ static unsigned long get_airq_indicator(struct
> virtqueue *vqs[], int nvqs,
> unsigned long bit, flags;
>
> for (i = 0; i < MAX_AIRQ_AREAS && !indicator_addr; i++) {
> + /* TODO: this seems to be racy */
> if (!airq_areas[i])
> - airq_areas[i] = new_airq_info();
> + airq_areas[i] = new_airq_info(i);
>
>
> As this shall be handled by a separate patch I will drop the comment
> in regard to airq_areas_lock from this patch as well for v2.
Ok, that makes sense.
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