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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 03:57:41PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> 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?

Yes, this is what I meant. Sorry about being unclear.

> > 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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