[libvirt] PATCH: 0/28: Thread safety for libvirtd daemon and drivers

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:15:05PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Daniel P. Berrange (berrange at redhat.com) wrote:
> > (*
> >  * This is the list of all libvirt methods which return
> >  * pointers to locked objects
> >  *)
> > let lockedObjMethods = [
> >    "virDomainFindByID";
> >    "virDomainFindByUUID";
> >    "virDomainFindByName";
> >    "virDomainAssignDef";
> ...
> 
> All quite cool.  Anyway to annotate the source so these tables don't get
> out of date?

We'd have to invent some annotation for parameters and return types to
indicate whether they expect / return a locked object.

Although actually thinking about it, in domain_conf.c, every single func
which takes a virDomainObjPtr as a param expects it to be locked, and all
which return such an object give it to you pre-locked. So I could just
have it parse domain_conf.h and extract the list of APIs in that header.

Daniel
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