Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] kvm: Extend irqfd to support level interrupts

[Alex Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 00:26 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 02:33:47PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > @@ -96,6 +183,9 @@ irqfd_shutdown(struct work_struct *work)
> >  	 * It is now safe to release the object's resources
> >  	 */
> >  	eventfd_ctx_put(irqfd->eventfd);
> > +
> > +	_irq_source_put(irqfd->source);
> > +
> >  	kfree(irqfd);
> >  }
> >  
> 
> Hang on, this is a bug I think. This is done asynchronously.  So this
> means that I can assign MAX number of irqfds, then close one, and now
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What is this?
Do you mean max irq source ids?

> assign will fail because deassign did not get freed.
> 
> Maybe we can solve this by flushing wq before assign?
> Looks a bit fragile but may be enough - need to document well.
> 



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