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

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Dec 3 19:20:36 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:52:32PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:18:21PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:26:48AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > This is a diffstat summary for the combined series of 28 patches
> > 
> >   Okay, my take at this point is that those should be commited with
> > the few fix found my manual examination, maybe extend the documentation
> > a bit, and start testing it as much as prossible.
> >   Some locking debug facility might be a good addition,
> 
> I wrote some an OCaml program using CIL to check driver method exit paths
> and validate that all objects were left in an unlocked state. This found
> some real bugs !
> 
> So here's the incremental fixes for those
[...]

  Damn, I missed them :-)

Is the CIL code too specific or too limited to share ? I must admit I
looked for a bit on the CIL website and Rich details from his previous
work on it:
  http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/cil-analysis-of-libvirt/
but the Ocaml language barrier somehow blocked me.

Daniel

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