mem_event: add ref counting for free requestslots

If mem_event_check_ring() is called by many vcpus at the same time
before any of them called also mem_event_put_request(), all of the
callers must assume there are enough free slots available in the ring.

Record the number of request producers in mem_event_check_ring() to
keep track of available free slots.

Add a new mem_event_put_req_producers() function to release a request
attempt made in mem_event_check_ring(). Its required for
p2m_mem_paging_populate() because that function can only modify the
p2m type if there are free request slots. But in some cases
p2m_mem_paging_populate() does not actually have to produce another
request when it is known that the same request was already made
earlier by a different vcpu.


mem_event_check_ring() can not return a reference to a free request
slot because there could be multiple references for different vcpus
and the order of mem_event_put_request() calls is not known. As a
result, incomplete requests could be consumed by the ring user.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/xen/include/xen/sched.h b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
index 902cd07418..2bda1edd7b 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ struct mem_event_domain
 {
     /* ring lock */
     spinlock_t ring_lock;
+    unsigned int req_producers;
     /* shared page */
     mem_event_shared_page_t *shared_page;
     /* shared ring page */