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Re: [Xen-devel] RE: Xen 4.1 rc1 test report

To: "Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx>, "Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RE: Xen 4.1 rc1 test report
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:13:03 +0000
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On 25/01/2011 14:05, "Wei, Gang" <gang.wei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 3. Think about how we could prevent such cases from panic Xen.
> 
> Any ideas, hints, comments, suggestions or even fixes on it?

Either the domain destroy path should forcibly unbind pirqs, or a non-empty
set of pirq bindings should hold at least one reference to a domain, to
prevent it being destroyed+freed.

Is forcible unbinding ever dangerous to system stability? If not perhaps
that is best.

 -- Keir



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