[libvirt] [PATCH 0/5] Fix virtlockd loosing locks

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 05:58:47PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> This is a workaround for the bizarre behaviour whereby the kernel throws
> away all fcntl() locks on execve()... if any threads are running. We
> simply make virtlockd & virlogd single threaded instead.
> 
> Daniel P. Berrangé (5):
>   rpc: push ref acquisition into RPC dispatch function
>   rpc: simplify calling convention of virNetServerClientDispatchFunc
>   rpc: invoke the message dispatch callback with client unlocked
>   rpc: avoid crashing in pre-exec if no workers are present
>   rpc: switch virtlockd and virtlogd to use single-threaded dispatch
> 
>  src/locking/lock_daemon.c    |  4 +--
>  src/logging/log_daemon.c     |  4 +--
>  src/rpc/virnetserver.c       | 29 ++++++++++------
>  src/rpc/virnetserverclient.c | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  src/rpc/virnetserverclient.h |  9 +++--
>  5 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

Forgot to say that we might want to still take a variety on Jim's pathc
to re-aquire locks after execve() so that existing deployments recover
their state. This patch series only fixes things when virtlockd is cold
started, and RPM upgrades will warm-restart with re-exec


Regards,
Daniel
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