Re: xl shutdown --wait "racy"

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 05:21:57PM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> 
> Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 5:19:34 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:08:21PM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> >> Hi Ian (C|J) Konrad,
> >> 
> >> I'm currently trying to workaround the pci-(detach|assignable-remove) issues i 
> >> reported earlier. 
> >> 
> >> The workaround i thought of was:
> >> - shutting down the guest
> >> - starting it without 1 of the original devices passed through
> >> - use xl pci-assignable-remove and bind the device to the dom0 driver.
> >> 
> >> But during this i noticed that a "xl shutdown --wait" does wait .. but returns:
> >> - Before the domain is removed from for instance "xl list", it still listed there in 
> >> "--ps--" state.
> >> - before pciback has done it's restore config space magic.
> 
> > Which reminds me - when you do this - are you (or any processes) in the /sysfs directory?
> > I've been having a hard-time reproducing the issue. Sometimes I see it, but then if I try
> > again the problem does not show up again.
> 
> When i do *what* ? (it's not exactly clear if you are referring to the problem 
> i'm trying to workaround .. or the problems i'm finding when trying to 
> workaround :-) )

Whoa. Looking back at my response it is pretty vague. I was refering to the
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-04/msg02237.html issue.

But that is unrelated to this problem you are reporting so lets just skip
my question.