[libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] Change locking for udev monitor and callbacks

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Eric Blake (eblake at redhat.com):
> On 04/06/2011 04:04 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 04:14:17PM -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> >> We're seeing bugs apparently resulting from thread unsafety of
> >> libpciaccess, such as
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/726099
> >> To prevent those, as suggested by danpb on irc, move the
> >> nodeDeviceLock(driverState) higher into the callers.  In
> >> particular:
> 
> >> libvirt 0.8.8 with this patch on it seems to work fine for me.
> >> Assuming it looks ok and I haven't done anything obviously dumb,
> >> I'll ask the bug submitters to try this patch.
> 
> > 
> > ACK, it looks good to me - serializing all access to the udev
> > and libpciaccess APIs is a good conservative approach.
> 
> I've gone ahead and pushed this; if your bug submitters still have
> further problems, we can address those in separate patches.

Great, thanks.

-serge