[PATCH 2/6] plugins/cache: limited the scope of a mutex lock

Mahmoud Mandour posted 6 patches 3 years, 3 months ago
Maintainers: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, Alexandre Iooss <erdnaxe@crans.org>, Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
[PATCH 2/6] plugins/cache: limited the scope of a mutex lock
Posted by Mahmoud Mandour 3 years, 3 months ago
It's not necessary to lock the address translation portion of the
vcpu_mem_access callback.

Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
---
 contrib/plugins/cache.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/plugins/cache.c b/contrib/plugins/cache.c
index 4a71602639..695fb969dc 100644
--- a/contrib/plugins/cache.c
+++ b/contrib/plugins/cache.c
@@ -355,15 +355,14 @@ static void vcpu_mem_access(unsigned int vcpu_index, qemu_plugin_meminfo_t info,
     struct qemu_plugin_hwaddr *hwaddr;
     InsnData *insn;
 
-    g_mutex_lock(&mtx);
     hwaddr = qemu_plugin_get_hwaddr(info, vaddr);
     if (hwaddr && qemu_plugin_hwaddr_is_io(hwaddr)) {
-        g_mutex_unlock(&mtx);
         return;
     }
 
     effective_addr = hwaddr ? qemu_plugin_hwaddr_phys_addr(hwaddr) : vaddr;
 
+    g_mutex_lock(&mtx);
     if (!access_cache(dcache, effective_addr)) {
         insn = (InsnData *) userdata;
         insn->dmisses++;
-- 
2.25.1


Re: [PATCH 2/6] plugins/cache: limited the scope of a mutex lock
Posted by Alex Bennée 3 years, 3 months ago
Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com> writes:

> It's not necessary to lock the address translation portion of the
> vcpu_mem_access callback.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
> ---
>  contrib/plugins/cache.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/plugins/cache.c b/contrib/plugins/cache.c
> index 4a71602639..695fb969dc 100644
> --- a/contrib/plugins/cache.c
> +++ b/contrib/plugins/cache.c
> @@ -355,15 +355,14 @@ static void vcpu_mem_access(unsigned int vcpu_index, qemu_plugin_meminfo_t info,
>      struct qemu_plugin_hwaddr *hwaddr;
>      InsnData *insn;
>  
> -    g_mutex_lock(&mtx);
>      hwaddr = qemu_plugin_get_hwaddr(info, vaddr);
>      if (hwaddr && qemu_plugin_hwaddr_is_io(hwaddr)) {
> -        g_mutex_unlock(&mtx);
>          return;
>      }
>  
>      effective_addr = hwaddr ? qemu_plugin_hwaddr_phys_addr(hwaddr) : vaddr;
>  
> +    g_mutex_lock(&mtx);
>      if (!access_cache(dcache, effective_addr)) {
>          insn = (InsnData *) userdata;
>          insn->dmisses++;

This is fine, but I see an exit leg creeps in later which I think we can
eliminate. I'll comment there:

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

-- 
Alex Bennée