Hi Jan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 3:58 PM
> To: Penny Zheng <[email protected]>
> Cc: Wei Chen <[email protected]>; Andrew Cooper
> <[email protected]>; George Dunlap <[email protected]>;
> Julien Grall <[email protected]>; Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>; 
> Wei
> Liu <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 9/9] xen: retrieve reserved pages on populate_physmap
> 
> On 07.06.2022 09:30, Penny Zheng wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Acquire a page from reserved page list(resv_page_list), when
> > +populating
> > + * memory for static domain on runtime.
> > + */
> > +mfn_t acquire_reserved_page(struct domain *d, unsigned int memflags)
> > +{
> > +    struct page_info *page;
> > +
> > +    spin_lock(&d->page_alloc_lock);
> > +    /* Acquire a page from reserved page list(resv_page_list). */
> > +    page = page_list_remove_head(&d->resv_page_list);
> > +    spin_unlock(&d->page_alloc_lock);
> 
> With page removal done under lock, ...
> 
> > +    if ( unlikely(!page) )
> > +        return INVALID_MFN;
> > +
> > +    if ( !prepare_staticmem_pages(page, 1, memflags) )
> > +        goto fail;
> > +
> > +    if ( assign_domstatic_pages(d, page, 1, memflags) )
> > +        goto fail;
> > +
> > +    return page_to_mfn(page);
> > +
> > + fail:
> > +    page_list_add_tail(page, &d->resv_page_list);
> > +    return INVALID_MFN;
> 
> ... doesn't re-adding the page to the list also need to be done with the lock
> held?

True, Sorry about that.
Like I said in another thread with Julien, I'll add the missing half part
"
For freeing part, I shall get the lock at arch_free_heap_page(),
where we insert the page to the rsv_page_list, and release the lock at the end 
of
the free_staticmem_page
"

> 
> Jan

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