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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: anthony.perard@citrix.com, sstabellini@kernel.org, kraxel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove xenstore watches of backends when terminating qemu
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:58:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57876255.6040407@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1468413065-10299-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>

On 13/07/16 14:31, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Xenstore watches of the /local/domain/<dom>/backend/<type> directories
> are never removed. This can lead to a memory leak in xenstored,
> especially when xenstored is running in another domain (this will be
> the case either for a system with xenstore-stubdom, or with driver
> domains running qemu-based backends).
> 
> Avoid this problem by calling xs_unwatch() for these directories when
> terminating qemu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

Please ignore this patch. It is not needed. The issue in xenstored is
_not_ due to not removed watches, but due to non freed memory after
sending a watch event.


Juergen

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-14  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-13 12:31 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove xenstore watches of backends when terminating qemu Juergen Gross
2016-07-14  9:58 ` Juergen Gross [this message]

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