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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Shuo A Liu <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Yu Wang <yu1.wang@intel.com>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
	Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>,
	Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/17] virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 07:25:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200928052516.GD767987@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200928035030.GD1057@shuo-intel.sh.intel.com>

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:50:30AM +0800, Shuo A Liu wrote:
> > > +	write_lock_bh(&acrn_vm_list_lock);
> > > +	list_add(&vm->list, &acrn_vm_list);
> > > +	write_unlock_bh(&acrn_vm_list_lock);
> > 
> > Why are the _bh() variants being used here?
> > 
> > You are only accessing this list from userspace context in this patch.
> > 
> > Heck, you aren't even reading from the list, only writing to it...
> 
> acrn_vm_list is read in a tasklet which dispatch I/O requests and is wrote
> in VM creation ioctl. Use the rwlock mechanism to protect it.
> The reading operation is introduced in the following patches of this
> series. So i keep the lock type at the moment of introduction.

Ok, but think about someone trying to review this code.  Does this lock
actually make sense here?  No, it does not.  How am I supposed to know
to look at future patches to determine that it changes location and
usage to require this?

That's just not fair, would you want to review something like this?

And a HUGE meta-comment, again, why am I the only one reviewing this
stuff?  Why do you have a ton of Intel people on the Cc: yet it is, once
again, my job to do this?

If you all are wanting to burn me out, you are doing a good job...

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-28  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-22 11:42 [PATCH v4 00/17] HSM driver for ACRN hypervisor shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 01/17] docs: acrn: Introduce ACRN shuo.a.liu
2020-10-09  1:48   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-10-12  8:50     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 02/17] x86/acrn: Introduce acrn_{setup, remove}_intr_handler() shuo.a.liu
2020-09-27 10:49   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  3:28     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-29 18:01   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-29 20:07     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-09-29 20:26       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-30  3:02         ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 03/17] x86/acrn: Introduce an API to check if a VM is privileged shuo.a.liu
2020-09-30  8:09   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-12  8:40     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 04/17] x86/acrn: Introduce hypercall interfaces shuo.a.liu
2020-09-27 10:51   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-27 10:53     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  3:38       ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-27 15:38     ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-30 11:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-30 16:10         ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-30 17:13           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-30 19:14             ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-09-30 19:42               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-30 23:58                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-30 19:59               ` Arvind Sankar
2020-09-30 20:01                 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-10-01  0:08                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-30 23:25               ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-30 23:38                 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-10-01  0:11                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-10-12  8:44               ` Shuo A Liu
2020-10-12 16:49                 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-10-13  2:44                   ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-30 10:54   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-10-12  8:49     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-22 11:42 ` [PATCH v4 05/17] virt: acrn: Introduce ACRN HSM basic driver shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 08/17] virt: acrn: Introduce EPT mapping management shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 10/17] virt: acrn: Introduce PCI configuration space PIO accesses combiner shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 11/17] virt: acrn: Introduce interfaces for PCI device passthrough shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 12/17] virt: acrn: Introduce interrupt injection interfaces shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 14/17] virt: acrn: Introduce I/O ranges operation interfaces shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 16/17] virt: acrn: Introduce irqfd shuo.a.liu
2020-09-22 11:43 ` [PATCH v4 17/17] virt: acrn: Introduce an interface for Service VM to control vCPU shuo.a.liu
2020-09-27 10:44   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  4:10     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-28  5:23       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  6:33         ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-27  0:24 ` [PATCH v4 00/17] HSM driver for ACRN hypervisor Liu, Shuo A
2020-09-27  5:42   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found] ` <20200922114311.38804-7-shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
2020-09-27 10:45   ` [PATCH v4 06/17] virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  3:43     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-27 10:47   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-28  3:50     ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-28  5:25       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-09-28  6:29         ` Shuo A Liu
2020-09-28 12:26           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-30  2:49             ` Shuo A Liu

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