Re: [PATCH 11/12] evtchn: convert vIRQ lock to an r/w one

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 30.09.2020 10:52, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Looking again, given that both send_guest_vcpu_virq() and
> send_guest_global_virq() (rightly) hold the evtchn lock before
> calling evtchn_port_set_pending() I think you could do away with
> the virq lock by adding checks in those functions to verify
> evtchn->state == ECS_VIRQ and u.virq == virq after having
> acquired the channel lock but before calling
> evtchn_port_set_pending().

I don't think so: The adjustment of v->virq_to_evtchn[] in
evtchn_close() would then happen with just the domain's event
lock held, which the sending paths don't use at all. The per-
channel lock gets acquired in evtchn_close() a bit later only
(and this lock can't possibly protect per-vCPU state).

In fact I'm now getting puzzled by evtchn_bind_virq() updating
this array with (just) the per-domain lock held. Since it's
the last thing in the function, there's technically no strict
need for acquiring the vIRQ lock, but holding the event lock
definitely doesn't help. All that looks to be needed is the
barrier implied from write_unlock().

Jan