[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix (rare) deadlock in QEMU monitor callbacks

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 08:30:10PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:56:52PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Some users report (very rarely) seeing a deadlock in the QEMU
> > monitor callbacks
> 
> This is actually not rare.  I hit it again today, twice, and I can
> ~50% reliably reproduce it using the parallel mount-local test in
> libguestfs.
> 
> I have added this patch to my libvirt, and will see how it goes ...

Looks good.  I did ~100 cycles of that one test without any
deadlocks.

Rich.

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