Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] oxenstored: Quota.merge: don't assume domain already exists

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 15:24 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jonathan Davies writes ("[PATCH] oxenstored: Quota.merge: don't assume
> domain already exists"):
> > In Quota.merge, we merge two quota hashtables, orig_quota and
> > mod_quota, putting
> > the results into dest_quota. These hashtables map domids to the number
> > of
> > entries currently owned by that domain.
> > 
> > When mod_quota contains an entry for a domid that was not present in
> > orig_quota
> > (or dest_quota), the call to get_entry caused Quota.merge to raise a
> > Not_found
> > exception. This propagates back to the client as an ENOENT error, which
> > is not
> > an appropriate return value from some operations, such as
> > transaction_end.
> > 
> > This situation can arise when a transaction that introduces a domain
> > (hence
> > calling Quota.add_entry) needs to be coalesced due to concurrent
> > xenstore
> > activity.
> > 
> > This patch handles the merge in the case where mod_quota contains an
> > entry not
> > present in orig_quota (or in dest_quota) by treating that hashtable as
> > having
> > existing value 0.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Davies <jonathan.davies@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The ocaml looks vaguely plausible.ÂÂI speak enough ocaml to see that
> this looks (out of context and with my half-remembered knowledge of
> oxenstored innards) like it does what you say.
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.


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