Daniel P. Berrangé 0db4743645 util: avoid crash due to race in glib event loop code
There is a fairly long standing race condition bug in glib which can hit
if you call g_source_destroy or g_source_unref from a non-main thread:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/1358

Unfortunately it is really common for libvirt to call g_source_destroy
from a non-main thread. This glib bug is the cause of non-determinstic
crashes in eventtest, and probably in libvirtd too.

To work around the problem we need to ensure that we never release
the last reference on a GSource from a non-main thread. The previous
patch replaced our use of g_source_destroy with a pair of
g_source_remove and g_source_unref. We can now delay the g_source_unref
call by using a idle callback to invoke it from the main thread which
avoids the race condition.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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==============================
Libvirt API for virtualization
==============================

Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It
includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.

For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management
daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the
API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.

Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other
languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as
mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.

Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the
website:

https://libvirt.org


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=======

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Installation
============

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Contributing
============

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https://libvirt.org/contribute.html


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=======

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Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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