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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: Mauricio Vasquez B <mauricio.vasquezbernal@studenti.polito.it>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ivshmem: fix race condition
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 09:01:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C6ECDF3AB251BE4894318F4E45123697820D9879@IRSMSX109.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459498608-10789-1-git-send-email-mauricio.vasquezbernal@studenti.polito.it>

Hi Mauricio,

> The memory zone could be freed just after adding it to the metadata
> file and just before marking it as not freeable.
> This patch changes the locking logic in order to prevent it.

Just a nit: if the stated purpose of the patch is to prevent the memzone free
before adding it to metadata, then it probably should check if the memzone
wasn't freed before we got the lock (or if it's a valid memzone in the first place).
Probably just checking if the virtual address of the memzone isn't 0 would be
enough. Otherwise looks fine to me.

Thanks,
Anatoly

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-01  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-01  8:16 Mauricio Vasquez B
2016-04-01  9:01 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2016-04-01 11:17   ` Mauricio Vásquez
2016-04-01 11:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Mauricio Vasquez B
2016-04-01 11:30   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-04-01 13:35     ` Thomas Monjalon

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