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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/xenconsoled: Initialise pointers
 before trying to use them
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:22:27 +0000
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On 07/03/13 16:20, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 15:13 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> This is a regression introduced by
>>
>> "Switch from select() to poll() in xenconsoled's IO loop."
>>   hg c/s 26405:7359c3122c5d
>>   git cc5434c933153c4b8812d1df901f8915c22830a8
>>
>> which results in reliable segfaults during VM power operations.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marcus Granado <marcus.granado@citrix.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
>>
> Good catch. Thanks.
>
>
> Wei.
>

Sadly, after fixing these segfaults, the code as currently is will cause
xenconsoled to exit gracefully as soon as you try and boot the 128th
domain.  We are currently investigating the issue.

~Andrew