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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Pin vcpu for VMX domain




On 8 Feb 2006, at 12:58, Jiang, Yunhong wrote:

I'm not sure if it will has some corner case, and hope your
clarification for it.
considering following situation, assume the VMX switch from cpu 0->cpu1
1) on cpu0, the timer interrupt happened, so timer_softirq_action is
called, the pit_timer_fn is called, and in pit_timer_fn, it will try to
set the  pit timer again.
2) before pit_timer_fn set the pit timer on cpu0, the stop_timer is
called on cpu1 on vmx_reinstall_timers.
3) after stop_timer finished, the pit_timer_fn on cpu0 set the ac_timer
on cpu0.

on this situation, the stop_timer on cpu1 will has no effect. And then
the init_timer may cause error situation.

In fact, I think the old patch itself is not safe on this situation,
since the stop_timer is called on IPI interrupt , which may run when the
pit_timer_fn is running.

Good point. I'll have to add a migrate_timer() function I think, that does the migration atomically.
That'll save you the hassle of stop/init/reactivate as well.

 -- Keir


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