xen-bus: Avoid rewriting identical values to xenstore

When QEMU receives a xenstore watch event suggesting that the "state"
of the frontend changed, it records this in its own state but it also
re-write the value back into xenstore even so there were no change.
This triggers an unnecessary xenstore watch event which QEMU will
process again (and maybe the frontend as well). Also QEMU could
potentially write an already old value.

Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Message-Id: <20190823101534.465-3-anthony.perard@citrix.com>

diff --git a/hw/xen/xen-bus.c b/hw/xen/xen-bus.c
index 62c127b926411f02055afab215e107ac82a5be7d..a04478ad4fd2c8bfc4abc473c0a6eb3a4ee1cdd1 100644 (file)
--- a/hw/xen/xen-bus.c
+++ b/hw/xen/xen-bus.c
@@ -698,7 +698,8 @@ int xen_device_frontend_scanf(XenDevice *xendev, const char *key,
 }
 
 static void xen_device_frontend_set_state(XenDevice *xendev,
-                                          enum xenbus_state state)
+                                          enum xenbus_state state,
+                                          bool publish)
 {
     const char *type = object_get_typename(OBJECT(xendev));
 
@@ -710,7 +711,9 @@ static void xen_device_frontend_set_state(XenDevice *xendev,
                                     xs_strstate(state));
 
     xendev->frontend_state = state;
-    xen_device_frontend_printf(xendev, "state", "%u", state);
+    if (publish) {
+        xen_device_frontend_printf(xendev, "state", "%u", state);
+    }
 }
 
 static void xen_device_frontend_changed(void *opaque)
@@ -726,7 +729,7 @@ static void xen_device_frontend_changed(void *opaque)
         state = XenbusStateUnknown;
     }
 
-    xen_device_frontend_set_state(xendev, state);
+    xen_device_frontend_set_state(xendev, state, false);
 
     if (state == XenbusStateInitialising &&
         xendev->backend_state == XenbusStateClosed &&
@@ -1169,7 +1172,7 @@ static void xen_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
     xen_device_frontend_printf(xendev, "backend-id", "%u",
                                xenbus->backend_id);
 
-    xen_device_frontend_set_state(xendev, XenbusStateInitialising);
+    xen_device_frontend_set_state(xendev, XenbusStateInitialising, true);
 
     xendev->exit.notify = xen_device_exit;
     qemu_add_exit_notifier(&xendev->exit);