[libvirt] [PATCH] Release VM lock before acquiring virDomainObjListPtr lock

[Eric Blake]

On 04/09/2013 07:13 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/09/2013 03:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to understand what the behavior was before this patch went in.
>>
>> Well this was just fixing a deadlock introduced in a previous patch.
>> You need to look further back than just this patch. Originally the
>> global QEMU driver lock would be held preventing any kind of concurrent
>> execution.
> 
> In fact, my testing said that this patch, in isolation, merely set up a
> latent bug, but did not cause a crash, precisely because back at that
> time in history, we were still being protected by the big qemu driver
> lock.  I'm still bisecting, though, to determine _which_ patch finally
> allowed this latent issue to finally crash libvirtd.

For cross-thread closure, my bisect results are here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-April/msg00721.html

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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