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Message-ID: <ZcCyzrUhXSlhKyqC@x1n>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 18:05:02 +0800
From: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@...hat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: selftests: Fix the dirty_log_test semaphore
imbalance
Shaoqin, Sean,
Apologies for a late comment. I'm trying to remember what I wrote..
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 01:43:32AM -0500, Shaoqin Huang wrote:
> Why sem_vcpu_cont and sem_vcpu_stop can be non-zero value? It's because
> the dirty_ring_before_vcpu_join() execute the sem_post(&sem_vcpu_cont)
> at the end of each dirty-ring test. It can cause two cases:
As a possible alternative, would it work if we simply reset all the sems
for each run? Then we don't care about the leftovers. E.g. sem_destroy()
at the end of run_test(), then always init to 0 at entry.
--
Peter Xu
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