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Re: [PATCH 5/8] xen/evtchn: don't close the static event channel.


  • To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, Rahul Singh <Rahul.Singh@xxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:33:17 +0200
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On 23.06.2022 17:30, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 23/06/2022 16:10, Rahul Singh wrote:
>>> On 22 Jun 2022, at 4:05 pm, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 22/06/2022 15:38, Rahul Singh wrote:
>>>> Guest can request the Xen to close the event channels. Ignore the
>>>> request from guest to close the static channels as static event channels
>>>> should not be closed.
>>>
>>> Why do you want to prevent the guest to close static ports? The problem I 
>>> can see is...
>>
>> As a static event channel should be available during the lifetime of the 
>> guest we want to prevent
>> the guest to close the static ports.
> I don't think it is Xen job to prevent a guest to close a static port. 
> If the guest decide to do it, then it will just break itself and not Xen.

+1, fwiw.

Jan



 


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