[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix (rare) deadlock in QEMU monitor callbacks

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sat Sep 29 19:30:10 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:56:52PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> 
> Some users report (very rarely) seeing a deadlock in the QEMU
> monitor callbacks

This is actually not rare.  I hit it again today, twice, and I can
~50% reliably reproduce it using the parallel mount-local test in
libguestfs.

I have added this patch to my libvirt, and will see how it goes ...

Rich.

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