[libvirt] [PATCH] Leave all child processes running when stopping systemd service

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Thu Mar 22 14:16:38 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 14:10 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 14:03 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Currently the libvirt.service unit file for systemd does not
> > specify any kill mode. So systemd kills off every process
> > inside its cgroup. ie all dnsmasq processes, all virtual
> > machines. This obviously not what we want. Set KillMode=process
> > so that it only kills the top level process of libvirtd
> > 
> > * daemon/libvirtd.service.in: Add KillMode=process
> 
> I was still looking through this. Try doing:
> 
>   $> systemctl restart libvirtd.service
> 
> It's killing the existing processes in the cgroup when starting the
> service. From poking at an strace, this looks like the code that's doing
> it:
> 
>   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/service.c?id=75c8e3cf#n2093
> 

Filed a bug:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/805942

Cheers,
Mark.




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