Re: [PATCH] resctrl: Do not open directory for writing
On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 13:44 +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 12:50:38PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> it seems to me that this change entirely flipped the semantics of
> the lock.
Yep, you're right. When you have a lock that has boolean as a parameter I think
the boolean should indicate whether the lock is writable, but maybe the proper
and most readable solution would be virFileFlockShareable() and
virFileFlockExclusive() to avoid any misconception in the future[2]. Given the
fact that there are no (and most probably won't be) any other users of flock(2)
and given the fact that resctrl is also pretty niche feature, I don't have any
preference. Also I feel like after some time I'm a little bit rusty with C and
the libvirt codebase (and most importantly the reasoning and decisions) has
changed a bit, so I'll leave the decision on how to deal with that on someone
else. I'm happy to provide the patches when clear decision is made.
Either
virFileFlockExclusive(fd)
virFileFlockShared(fd)
or
virFileFlock(fd, VIR_FILE_FLOCK_EXCLUSIVE)
virFileFlock(fd, VIR_FILE_FLOCK_SHARED)
would work. I like the latter better because it's closer to the
original flock(), which it ultimately acts as a very thin wrapper
around of. I'm actually unclear why we'd have the last argument in
the first place: personally I'd just use
virFileFlock(fd, VIR_FILE_FLOCK_UNLOCK)
and keep things as unambiguous as they can be.
This is all bikeshedding, of course: what actually matters is making
that lock exclusive once again :)
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization