Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 1/6] xen: sched: fix locking of remove_vcpu() in credit1

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 18:04 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 29/10/15 23:04, Dario Faggioli wrote:

> > @@ -936,15 +936,19 @@ csched_vcpu_remove(const struct scheduler
> > *ops, struct vcpu *vc)
> >          vcpu_unpause(svc->vcpu);
> >      }
> >  
> > +    lock = vcpu_schedule_lock_irq(vc);
> > +
> >      if ( __vcpu_on_runq(svc) )
> >          __runq_remove(svc);
> >  
> > -    spin_lock_irqsave(&(prv->lock), flags);
> > +    vcpu_schedule_unlock_irq(lock, vc);
> 
> Actually, at this point the domain should be either paused or in the
> middle of being destroyed, so it shouldn't be possible for the vcpu
> to
> be on the runqueue, should it?
>
Makes sense.

>   Should we instead change that if() to an
> ASSERT(!__vcpu_on_runqueue(svc))?
> 
I like the idea, I'll do it like this.

Thanks and Regards,
Dario
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