Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Don't ignore error when we fail to give access to ioport/irq

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wei,

On 09/01/15 14:15, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 01:54:22PM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
>> If we fail to give the access, the domain will unlikely work correctly.
>> So we should bail out at the first error.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>> This patch is candidate for a backport for at least Xen 4.4 and Xen 4.5.
> 
> The handling of io mem has same issue. You may also want to fix that?

I forgot this one. I will fix in the next version.

> Also do you need to clean up (revoke permission) the ports, irqs and io
> mems that have already been assigned?

We don't need to clean up ioport/irqs/iomems. It's already done
implicitly when the domain is destroyed.

> I presume that's done when domain
> is destroyed?

If domain destroyed doesn't correctly revoke the permission that would
mean the code is buggy in the normal behavior.

Regards,


-- 
Julien Grall

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