Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] xen/events: avoid handling the same event on two cpus at the same time

From: Julien Grall
Date: Sat Feb 20 2021 - 07:13:08 EST


Hi Juergen,

On 19/02/2021 15:40, Juergen Gross wrote:
When changing the cpu affinity of an event it can happen today that
(with some unlucky timing) the same event will be handled on the old
and the new cpu at the same time.

Avoid that by adding an "event active" flag to the per-event data and
call the handler only if this flag isn't set.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

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Julien Grall