[libvirt] [PATCH v5 3/6] udev: Split udevEventHandleCallback in two functions

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Wed Oct 18 13:48:49 UTC 2017


On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:23:52AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
>
>
> On 10/11/2017 10:52 AM, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > This patch splits udevEventHandleCallback in two (introduces
> > udevEventHandleThread) in order to be later able to refactor the latter
> > to actually become a normal thread which will wait some time for the
> > kernel to create the whole sysfs tree for a device as we cannot do that
> > in the event loop directly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  src/node_device/node_device_udev.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> >  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
> > index bb9787fdb..f7646cd8a 100644
> > --- a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
> > +++ b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
> > @@ -1691,32 +1691,49 @@ udevEventMonitorSanityCheck(udevEventDataPtr priv,
> >
> >
> >  static void
> > +udevEventHandleThread(void *opaque)
> > +{
> > +    udevEventDataPtr priv = driver->privateData;
> > +    int fd = (intptr_t) opaque;
> > +    struct udev_device *device = NULL;
> > +
>
> To go along with my thought from patch 2, should there be a "if (!priv)"
> check here too?  I believe it doesn't matter yet because there are
> driver level locks that would seemingly prevent the thread code from
> running if Cleanup occurs, but soon enough that won't be the case.

It's called from within Initialize which is the main thread, if !priv,
Initialize would have failed by this point

Erik




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