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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm_irqchip_assign_irqfd: just s


From: Denis V. Lunev
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm_irqchip_assign_irqfd: just set irqfd in case of kvm_irqfds_enabled()
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:16:10 +0300
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On 26/12/14 13:00, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 26 December 2014 at 08:05, Tiejun Chen <address@hidden> wrote:
We should avoid to set irqfd{} unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <address@hidden>

Is there a hot path that we use this on such that the difference
in code order matters at all?

thanks
-- PMM


IMHO the patch does not change anything even on hot-hot path.
the declaration 'struct kvm_irqfd irqfd = {};' will
result in memset inside.

Thus in order to achieve declared goal author should
declare
   struct kvm_irqfd irqfd;
and perform
   memset(&irqfd, 0, sizeof(irqfd));
later after the check.

Regards,
        Den



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