On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 04:38:05PM +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 13:57 +0800, Quan Xu wrote:
> > If Device-TLB flush timed out, we would hide the target ATS
> > device and crash the domain owning this ATS device. If impacted
> > domain is hardware domain, just throw out a warning.
> > 
> > The hidden device should be disallowed to be further assigned
> > to any domain.
> > 
> What is "should be disallowed" supposed to mean here? Isn't the
> situation that, by hiding the device, which this patch is doing, we
> actually disallow any further assignment?

Yes.

Take a look at device_assigned. This patch reassigns the device to dom_xen
so device_assigned will return -EBUSY.

Actually that information could be part of the commit to get an
idea of the effects of this patch.
> 
> If yes, this should rather be (something like):
> 
> "By hiding the device, we make sure it can't be assigned to any domain
> any longer."
> 
> Other than this, the patch looks good to me, but I'll re-review it when
> the new version comes out (with the other patches from the preliminary
> series folded in), before saying Reviewed-by.
> 
> Regards,
> Dario
> -- 
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> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
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