Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] xen/events: only register debug interrupt for 2-level events

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Thu Oct 22 2020 - 09:17:54 EST


On 22.10.2020 15:09, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 22.10.20 12:35, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 22.10.2020 11:49, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> @@ -2080,10 +2080,12 @@ void __init xen_init_IRQ(void)
>>> int ret = -EINVAL;
>>> evtchn_port_t evtchn;
>>>
>>> - if (fifo_events)
>>> + if (xen_fifo_events)
>>> ret = xen_evtchn_fifo_init();
>>> - if (ret < 0)
>>> + if (ret < 0) {
>>> xen_evtchn_2l_init();
>>> + xen_fifo_events = false;
>>> + }
>>
>> Another note: While it may not matter right here, maybe better
>> first set the variable and the call the function?
>
> I don't think this is really important, TBH.
>
> This code is executed before other cpus are up and we'd have major
> other problems in case the sequence would really matter here.

Fair enough; I was thinking in particular that it ought to be
legitimate for xen_evtchn_2l_init() to BUG_ON(xen_fifo_events).

Jan