Xen devel - Nov 2007 - [PATCH] [Mini-OS] Make gnttab allocation/free safe

Add a semaphore to protect gnttab_list from exhaustion, and disable
callbacks during allocation/free.  Fix the network frontend accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@citrix.com>

diff -r bb961bda7eff extras/mini-os/gnttab.c
--- a/extras/mini-os/gnttab.c	Sun Nov 25 21:24:48 2007 +0000
+++ b/extras/mini-os/gnttab.c	Mon Nov 26 11:50:31 2007 +0000
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <os.h>
 #include <mm.h>
 #include <gnttab.h>
+#include <semaphore.h>
 
 #define NR_RESERVED_ENTRIES 8
 
@@ -31,20 +32,29 @@
 
 static grant_entry_t *gnttab_table;
 static grant_ref_t gnttab_list[NR_GRANT_ENTRIES];
+static __DECLARE_SEMAPHORE_GENERIC(gnttab_sem, NR_GRANT_ENTRIES);
 
 static void
 put_free_entry(grant_ref_t ref)
 {
+    unsigned long flags;
+    local_irq_save(flags);
     gnttab_list[ref] = gnttab_list[0];
     gnttab_list[0]  = ref;
-
+    local_irq_restore(flags);
+    up(&gnttab_sem);
 }
 
 static grant_ref_t
 get_free_entry(void)
 {
-    unsigned int ref = gnttab_list[0];
+    unsigned int ref;
+    unsigned long flags;
+    down(&gnttab_sem);
+    local_irq_save(flags);
+    ref = gnttab_list[0];
     gnttab_list[0] = gnttab_list[ref];
+    local_irq_restore(flags);
     return ref;
 }
 
diff -r bb961bda7eff extras/mini-os/netfront.c
--- a/extras/mini-os/netfront.c	Sun Nov 25 21:24:48 2007 +0000
+++ b/extras/mini-os/netfront.c	Mon Nov 26 11:50:31 2007 +0000
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ moretodo:
         struct net_buffer* buf = &rx_buffers[id];
         void* page = buf->page;
 
+        /* We are sure to have free gnttab entries since they got released
above */
         buf->gref = req->gref = 
             gnttab_grant_access(0,virt_to_mfn(page),0);
 
@@ -436,8 +437,9 @@ void netfront_xmit(unsigned char* data,i
     down(&tx_sem);
 
     local_irq_save(flags);
+    id = get_id_from_freelist(tx_freelist);
+    local_irq_restore(flags);
 
-    id = get_id_from_freelist(tx_freelist);
     buf = &tx_buffers[id];
     page = buf->page;
 
@@ -461,7 +463,7 @@ void netfront_xmit(unsigned char* data,i
 
     if(notify) notify_remote_via_evtchn(info->evtchn);
 
+    local_irq_save(flags);
     network_tx_buf_gc();
-
     local_irq_restore(flags);
 }

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