Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/4] exec: Atomic access to bounce buffer

[Fam Zheng]

On Mon, 03/16 08:30, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16/03/2015 06:31, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > There could be a race condition when two processes call
> > address_space_map concurrently and both want to use the bounce buffer.
> > 
> > Add an in_use flag in BounceBuffer to sync it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  exec.c | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
> > index e97071a..4080044 100644
> > --- a/exec.c
> > +++ b/exec.c
> > @@ -2483,6 +2483,7 @@ typedef struct {
> >      void *buffer;
> >      hwaddr addr;
> >      hwaddr len;
> > +    bool in_use;
> >  } BounceBuffer;
> >  
> >  static BounceBuffer bounce;
> > @@ -2571,9 +2572,10 @@ void *address_space_map(AddressSpace *as,
> >      l = len;
> >      mr = address_space_translate(as, addr, &xlat, &l, is_write);
> >      if (!memory_access_is_direct(mr, is_write)) {
> > -        if (bounce.buffer) {
> > +        if (atomic_xchg(&bounce.in_use, true)) {
> >              return NULL;
> >          }
> > +        smp_mb();
> 
> smp_mb() not needed.

OK, I was confused by the Linux documentation on atomic_xchg. Now I've looked
at the right places, it is not needed. Thanks,

Fam

> 
> Ok with this change.
> 
> Paolo
> 
> >          /* Avoid unbounded allocations */
> >          l = MIN(l, TARGET_PAGE_SIZE);
> >          bounce.buffer = qemu_memalign(TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, l);
> > @@ -2641,6 +2643,7 @@ void address_space_unmap(AddressSpace *as, void 
> > *buffer, hwaddr len,
> >      qemu_vfree(bounce.buffer);
> >      bounce.buffer = NULL;
> >      memory_region_unref(bounce.mr);
> > +    atomic_mb_set(&bounce.in_use, false);
> >      cpu_notify_map_clients();
> >  }
> >  
> >