Re: OT: xen libvirt issue

[Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>]

AL13N wrote:
> Op maandag 8 april 2013 06:22:49 schreef Marek Marczykowski:
>   
>> On 05.04.2013 13:13, George Dunlap wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Dario Faggioli
>>>
>>> <dario.faggioli@citrix.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On gio, 2013-04-04 at 21:49 +0200, AL13N wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> i realise this is completely off-topic, but if someone on this list has
>>>>> some knowledge on this, see:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-April/msg00189.html
>>>>>
>>>>> the issue is that shutting down xen domains, segfaults libvirtd... which
>>>>> is
>>>>> annoying
>>>>>           
>>>> I don't have any clue on this... But, perhaps, Jim does (Cc-ing him)?
>>>>         
>>> The e-mail that AL13N linked to was actually from Jim, saying he would
>>> be really busy for a while and unable to look at it.
>>>
>>> The question isn't off-topic, as libxl and xend have to work closely
>>> with libvirt.  Unfortunately, I don't think any of the active
>>> developers on this list has much familiarity with libvirt.  It Would
>>> Be Good if someone could step up and learn, but with our feature
>>> freeze next week, we're also kind of heads-down getting stuff
>>> implemented...
>>>       
>> I believe it is already fixed in unstable by this commit:
>> 5f5ef65babc2ca15f43b775c4b47b0102fa2a632 "libxl: fix stale timeout event
>> callback race"
>>
>> Sadly backport to 4.2 isn't trivial.
>>     
>
> Looking at the patch i totally agree that it isn't trivial...
>   

I forgot to mention, that commit plus bc7e8a2a have been backported to
our openSUSE Xen 4.2 packages

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=xen&project=Virtualization

See 26468-libxl-race.patch and 26469-libxl-race.patch.

Regards,
Jim