[libvirt] Report of tsan first testing with libvirt(d)
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Fri May 18 10:40:06 UTC 2012
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 09:16:20AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:55:05AM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
[...]
> > The other one raised is actually something I had initially found
> > with the first run on libxml2 so it's relatively consistent:
>
> Yay libxml2 is not thread safe !
>
> "The function rand() is not reentrant or thread-safe, since
> it uses hidden state that is modified on each call. This
> might just be the seed value to be used by the next call, or
> it might be something more elaborate. In order to get
> reproducible behavior in a threaded application, this state
> must be made explicit; this can be done using the reentrant
> function rand_r()."
>
> You should probably validate libxml2 against all the functions
> have blacklisted for libvirt in Makefile.nonreentrant
Actually I don't care about "reproducible behaviour" there, the
goal is precisely to introduce some randomness in the execution.
But better to fix this which is now done upstream and will be
in 2.8.0
http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=379ebc1d774865fa92f2a8d80cc4da65cbe19998
Daniel
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