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From: Christian Limpach <christian.limpach@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix another race condition in xm destroy
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:00:39 +0100
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On 9/16/05, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> There's a race condition in xm destroy that gets triggered when
> xc_domain_destroy results in a domain disappearing before we invoke the
> cleanup routines.  Specifically, the saveToDB routines will through a No
> such process error.
>=20
> Christian, I'd appreciate if you could sanity check this before
> committing.  I think it's okay because starting the cleanup shouldn't
> have any adverse effects.  Having another pair of eyes confirm it would
> make me feel better though :-)

How does it fail for you?  I fixed one issue where we were clearing
the store event channel and writing that back to the store was
failing.

I'd prefer to keep doing the cleanup after destroy_domain.

     christian