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Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock |
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Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:14:53 +0200 |
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Il 19/09/2012 11:11, liu ping fan ha scritto:
>> > Why not? devA will drop its local lock, devX will retake the big lock
>> > recursively, devB will take its local lock. In the end, we have biglock
>> > -> devB.
>> >
> But when adopting local lock, we assume take local lock, then biglock.
No, because the local lock will be dropped before taking the biglock.
The order must always be coarse->fine.
I don't know if the front-end (device) lock should come before or after
the back-end (e.g. netdev) lock in the hierarchy, but that's another story.
Paolo
> Otherwise another thread will take biglock then local lock, which
> cause the possibility of deadlock.
>
- [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Jan Kiszka, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Jan Kiszka, 2012/09/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/09/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/09/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, Avi Kivity, 2012/09/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [big lock] Discussion about the convention of device's DMA each other after breaking down biglock, liu ping fan, 2012/09/21