This patch prevents me from starting a guest until
the outstanding issue - namely why is hcall_buf_prep() never called -
is solved.
Christoph
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 17:01:07 Ian Campbell wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> # Date 1282143629 -3600
> # Node ID b1f4b4be1f94c0007794f86abd019f5c2629c59b
> # Parent ddbd38da07397dca4760fb687551c3f6f9134700
> libxc: free thread specific hypercall buffer on xc_interface_close
>
> The per-thread hypercall buffer is usually cleaned up on pthread_exit
> by the destructor passed to pthread_key_create. However if the calling
> application is not threaded then the destructor is never called.
>
> This frees the data for the current thread only but that is OK since
> any other threads will be cleaned up by the destructor.
>
> Changed since v1:
> * Ensure hcall_buf_pkey is initialised before use. Thanks to
> Christoph Egger for his help diagnosing this issue on NetBSD.
> * Remove redundant if (hcall_buf) from xc_clean_hcall_buf since
> _xc_clean_hcall_buf includes the same check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff -r ddbd38da0739 -r b1f4b4be1f94 tools/libxc/xc_private.c
> --- a/tools/libxc/xc_private.c Wed Aug 18 13:14:57 2010 +0100
> +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_private.c Wed Aug 18 16:00:29 2010 +0100
> @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ xc_interface *xc_interface_open(xentooll
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static void xc_clean_hcall_buf(void);
> +
> int xc_interface_close(xc_interface *xch)
> {
> int rc = 0;
> @@ -68,6 +70,9 @@ int xc_interface_close(xc_interface *xch
> rc = xc_interface_close_core(xch, xch->fd);
> if (rc) PERROR("Could not close hypervisor interface");
> }
> +
> + xc_clean_hcall_buf();
> +
> free(xch);
> return rc;
> }
> @@ -180,6 +185,8 @@ int hcall_buf_prep(void **addr, size_t l
> int hcall_buf_prep(void **addr, size_t len) { return 0; }
> void hcall_buf_release(void **addr, size_t len) { }
>
> +static void xc_clean_hcall_buf(void) { }
> +
> #else /* !__sun__ */
>
> int lock_pages(void *addr, size_t len)
> @@ -228,6 +235,13 @@ static void _xc_init_hcall_buf(void)
> static void _xc_init_hcall_buf(void)
> {
> pthread_key_create(&hcall_buf_pkey, _xc_clean_hcall_buf);
> +}
> +
> +static void xc_clean_hcall_buf(void)
> +{
> + pthread_once(&hcall_buf_pkey_once, _xc_init_hcall_buf);
> +
> + _xc_clean_hcall_buf(pthread_getspecific(hcall_buf_pkey));
> }
>
> int hcall_buf_prep(void **addr, size_t len)
>
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