> On Nov 28, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Ian Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> George Dunlap writes ("[PATCH 7/9] libxl: Make killing of device model 
> asynchronous"):
>> Or at least, give it an asynchronous interface so that we can make it
>> actually asynchronous in subsequent patches.
>> 
>> Create state structures and callback function signatures.  Add the
>> state structure to libxl__destroy_domid_state.  Break
>> libxl__destroy_domid down into two functions.
> ...
>> +/* Used to detroy the device model */
>> +_hidden void libxl__destroy_device_model(libxl__egc *egc,
>> +                                         libxl__destroy_devicemodel_state 
>> *ddms);
> 
> I think that comment is rather pointless (but I won't object if you
> really want to keep it).  

Yes; that comment looks rather vestigal.

> Conversely it would be nice to say somewhere
> that ddms->callback may be called reentrantly.

What do you mean by reentrantly?  That libxl__destroy_device_model() may end up 
calling it directly (on this execution stack), rather than arranging for it to 
be called by someone else after returning?

 -George


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