Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] libxl: fix assertion failure in stub domain creation

2020-02-05 Thread Wei Liu
On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 11:29:30AM +, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 11:24:12AM +, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > NOTE: The comment for XEN_DOMCTL_createdomain in domctl.h is changed to
> >   reflect reality.
> 
> Surely, this change deserve to be in its own patch, isn't it?

Ideally I would want that too. But this patch is trivial so I'm not too
fussed either way.

Wei.

> 
> -- 
> Anthony PERARD

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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] libxl: fix assertion failure in stub domain creation

2020-02-05 Thread Anthony PERARD
On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 11:24:12AM +, Paul Durrant wrote:
> NOTE: The comment for XEN_DOMCTL_createdomain in domctl.h is changed to
>   reflect reality.

Surely, this change deserve to be in its own patch, isn't it?

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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] libxl: fix assertion failure in stub domain creation

2020-02-05 Thread Jan Beulich
On 05.02.2020 12:24, Paul Durrant wrote:
> --- a/xen/include/public/domctl.h
> +++ b/xen/include/public/domctl.h
> @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
>  
>  /*
>   * NB. xen_domctl.domain is an IN/OUT parameter for this operation.
> - * If it is specified as zero, an id is auto-allocated and returned.
> + * If it is specified as an invalid value (0 or >= DOMID_FIRST_RESERVED),
> + * an id is auto-allocated and returned.
>   */
>  /* XEN_DOMCTL_createdomain */
>  struct xen_domctl_createdomain {

Acked-by: Jan Beulich 


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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] libxl: fix assertion failure in stub domain creation

2020-02-05 Thread Wei Liu
On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 11:24:12AM +, Paul Durrant wrote:
> An assertion in libxl__domain_make():
> 
> 'soft_reset || *domid == INVALID_DOMID'
> 
> does not hold true for stub domain creation, where soft_reset is false
> but the passed in domid == 0. This is easily fixed by changing the
> initializer in libxl__spawn_stub_dm().
> 
> NOTE: The comment for XEN_DOMCTL_createdomain in domctl.h is changed to
>   reflect reality.
> 
> Fixes: 75259239d85d ("libxl_create: make 'soft reset' explicit")
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant 

Acked-by: Wei Liu 

I will wait until end of today in case others want to comment on the
domctl.h change.

I will also carry over Anthony's ack from v1 while committing.

Wei.

> ---
> Cc: Ian Jackson 
> Cc: Wei Liu 
> Cc: Anthony PERARD 
> Cc: Roger Pau Monné 
> Cc: Andrew Cooper 
> Cc: George Dunlap 
> Cc: Jan Beulich 
> Cc: Julien Grall 
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini 
> 
> An example of the assertion failure can be seen at:
> 
> http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/146726/test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemut-stubdom-debianhvm-amd64-xsm/10.ts-debian-hvm-install.log
> ---
>  tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c  | 2 +-
>  xen/include/public/domctl.h | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
> index f758daf3b6..3b1da90167 100644
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
> @@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ void libxl__spawn_stub_dm(libxl__egc *egc, 
> libxl__stub_dm_spawn_state *sdss)
>  goto out;
>  }
>  
> -sdss->pvqemu.guest_domid = 0;
> +sdss->pvqemu.guest_domid = INVALID_DOMID;
>  
>  libxl_domain_create_info_init(_config->c_info);
>  dm_config->c_info.type = LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_PV;
> diff --git a/xen/include/public/domctl.h b/xen/include/public/domctl.h
> index 2bb7397923..fec6f6fdd1 100644
> --- a/xen/include/public/domctl.h
> +++ b/xen/include/public/domctl.h
> @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
>  
>  /*
>   * NB. xen_domctl.domain is an IN/OUT parameter for this operation.
> - * If it is specified as zero, an id is auto-allocated and returned.
> + * If it is specified as an invalid value (0 or >= DOMID_FIRST_RESERVED),
> + * an id is auto-allocated and returned.
>   */
>  /* XEN_DOMCTL_createdomain */
>  struct xen_domctl_createdomain {
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

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