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[Xen-devel] RE: the irq_enter in do_IRQ

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: the irq_enter in do_IRQ
From: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:43:14 +0800
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 4:00 PM
>To: Jiang, Yunhong
>Cc: xen-devel
>Subject: Re: the irq_enter in do_IRQ
>
>On 18/09/2010 03:22, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Keir, in do_IRQ,  why do we call the irq_enter only in __do_IRQ_guest and
>> the action->handler(), instead of the whole flow of do_IRQ?
>>
>> I asked this because we noticed a bug that the map/unmap_domain_page() is
>> called in a interrupt handler's ack() method, which is not guarded by
>> irq_enter(), thus the "ASSERT(!in_irq())" in map/unmap_domain_page() is not
>> work expected to guard this calling.
>
>Okay, xen-unstable:22175 fixes do_IRQ() to be better covered by
>irq_enter()/irq_exit(). Xen-unstable:22177 fixes
>map_domain_page()/unmap_domain_page() to be IRQ safe.
>
>If these work okay for you then they are candidates for backport for 4.0.2.
>
> -- Keir
>
>> Thanks
>> --jyh
>

Thanks for your changeset very much. As this issue is discovered in our nightly 
test, we will check it later and gives the feedback then.

Thanks
--jyh


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