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Date:      Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:54:10 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Gustau_P=C3=A9rez?= <gustau.perez@gmail.com>
Cc:        =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@citrix.com>, FreeBSD XEN <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Porting the block-iscsi hotplug script
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Gustau Pérez wrote:
> El 4/03/16 a les 11:00, Roger Pau Monné ha escrit:
> >
> > What other parameters do you want to pass to your script that cannot be 
> > fetched from xenstore? IMHO I was planning to only pass the xenstore 
> > backend node and the action.
> 
>    The action (if I understand it correctly) is already there.

Yes, the xenstore backend path is $1 and the action $2.

> 
>    OTOH, I'd like to check if the disks are already in use, and so I'd
> need to walk the /local/domain/0/backend/vbd/$domin/$devid/ looking if
> the disks are already there. This arises two questions:
> 
>   * can I assume the domain0 store would always be /local/domain/0/?

Hm, I wouldn't be on it. This is true in the most common scenario, where 
Dom0 (domain with id 0) runs all the backends. But if you are using a 
driver domain or a radically disagregated system (where control domain != 
hardware domain) this is no longer true. So in general you shouldn't make 
this assumption.

>   * would I need to walk for each $domid checking for each $devid and
>     getting the physical device?

Linux already has some code to do this checking, but this also involves 
taking a lock in order to make sure there's only one hotplug script 
performing this check at the same time.

The Linux function that performs this checking is in:

http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=tools/hotplug/Linux/block;h=2691b56951c9b82094471a141b9e0bed04abb929;hb=HEAD#l40

And the caller is:

http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=tools/hotplug/Linux/block;h=2691b56951c9b82094471a141b9e0bed04abb929;hb=HEAD#l275

If you take a look, the call to check_device_sharing is protected with the 
"block" lock.

Roger.


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