On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 10:41:32AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While it is okay for IOMMU page tables to get set up for guests starting
> in PoD mode, actual device assignment may only occur once all PoD
> entries have been removed from the P2M. So far this was enforced only
> for boot-time assignment, and only in the tool stack.
>
> Also use the new function to replace p2m_pod_entry_count(): Its unlocked
> access to p2m->pod.entry_count wasn't really okay (irrespective of the
> result being stale by the time the caller gets to see it).
>
> To allow the tool stack to see a consistent snapshot of PoD state, move
> the tail of XENMEM_{get,set}_pod_target handling into a function, adding
> proper locking there.
>
> In libxl take the liberty to use the new local variable r also for a
> pre-existing call into libxc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.per...@citrix.com>
Thanks,
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Anthony PERARD
