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Jim Fehlig 57db83ae3b libxl: use driver-wide ctx in fd and timer event handling
Long ago I incorrectly associated libxl fd and timer registrations
with per-domain libxl_ctx objects.  When creating a libxlDomainObjPrivate,
a libxl_ctx is allocated, and libxl_osevent_register_hooks is called
passing a pointer to the libxlDomainObjPrivate.  When an fd or timer
registration occurred, the registration callback received the
libxlDomainObjPrivate, containing the per-domain libxl_ctx.  This
libxl_ctx was then used when informing libxl about fd events or
timer expirations.

The problem with this approach is that fd and timer registrations do not
share the same lifespan as libxlDomainObjPrivate, and hence the per-domain
libxl_ctx ojects.  The result is races between per-domain libxl_ctx's being
destoryed and events firing on associated fds/timers, typically manifesting
as an assert in libxl

libxl_internal.h:2788: libxl__ctx_unlock: Assertion `!r' failed

There is no need to associate libxlDomainObjPrivate objects with libxl's
desire to use libvirt's event loop.  Instead, the driver-wide libxl_ctx can
be used for the fd and timer registrations.

This patch moves the fd and timer handling code away from the
domain-specific code in libxl_domain.c into libxl_driver.c.  While at it,
function names were changed a bit to better describe their purpose.

The unnecessary locking was also removed since the code simply provides a
wrapper over the event loop interface.  Indeed the locks may have been
causing some deadlocks when repeatedly creating/destroying muliple domains.
There have also been rumors about such deadlocks during parallel OpenStack
Tempest runs.

Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
2015-03-24 15:03:54 -06:00
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daemon RPC: Allow HW address in remote_domain_interface struct to be NULL 2015-03-18 09:12:36 +01:00
docs Document behavior of compat when creating qcow2 volumes 2015-03-24 18:07:00 +01:00
examples Fix common misspellings 2015-03-23 09:01:30 +01:00
gnulib maint: fix date in local gnulib patch 2015-01-05 16:44:10 +00:00
include Fix common misspellings 2015-03-23 09:01:30 +01:00
m4 rpm-build: use pkg-config to detect wireshark presence 2015-03-16 22:58:54 +01:00
po util: functions to support binding/unbinding midonet virtualports 2015-03-17 12:56:37 -04:00
src libxl: use driver-wide ctx in fd and timer event handling 2015-03-24 15:03:54 -06:00
tests qemucaps2xmltest: fix the test to correspond to new domain formatting 2015-03-24 16:44:08 +01:00
tools Fix common misspellings 2015-03-23 09:01:30 +01:00
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.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore Revert "src/xenconfig: Xen-xl parser" 2015-01-12 10:15:13 -07:00
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AUTHORS.in AUTHORS: add myself to commiters list 2015-03-16 09:30:02 +01:00
autobuild.sh Disable libvirtd by default when building on Win32 2014-04-29 11:30:32 +01:00
autogen.sh maint: improve usage of autogen's --no-git 2015-02-06 11:35:29 -07:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2015-01-05 16:05:12 +00:00
bootstrap.conf Revert "bootstrap.conf: add check for flex" 2015-01-12 10:14:30 -07:00
cfg.mk network_conf: Make virNetworkObj actually virObject 2015-03-11 16:58:48 +01:00
ChangeLog-old Fix typos in src/* 2014-04-21 16:49:08 -06:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
configure.ac libxl: use xenlight pkgconfig file if present 2015-03-19 16:13:26 -06:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
HACKING docs: Fix missing curly braces 2014-12-10 11:21:31 +01:00
libvirt-lxc.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt-qemu.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
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libvirt.spec.in spec: Enable RBD storage driver in RHEL-7 2015-03-05 16:24:53 +01:00
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README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
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run.in Add PKG_CONFIG_PATH to run.in script. 2014-06-26 14:32:35 +01:00
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         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>