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Re: [Xen-devel] why xenstore-* hangs if xenstored is not started

To: Vincent Hanquez <Vincent.Hanquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] why xenstore-* hangs if xenstored is not started
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:06:02 +0100
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On 22/06/2010 08:56, "Vincent Hanquez" <Vincent.Hanquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> On 22/06/10 08:45, Keir Fraser wrote:
>> Does the xenstore driver in the dom0 kernel put the process into
>> uninterruptible sleep? The 2.6.18 kernel simply returns -ENODEV in this case
>> I think. So perhaps pv_ops has different and inferior behaviour.
> 
> the behavior was the same in 2.6.18.

Ah, I just see 'if (!is_xenstored_ready()) return -ENODEV' in 2.6.18's
xenbus_dev.c. I assumed that would have an effect on this case.

 -- Keir



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