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<h1>Resource Lock Manager</h1>
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<ul id="toc"></ul>
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<p>
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This page describes the design of the resource lock manager
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that is used for locking disk images, to ensure exclusive
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access to content.
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</p>
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<h2><a name="goals">Goals</a></h2>
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<p>
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The high level goal is to prevent the same disk image being
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used by more than one QEMU instance at a time (unless the
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disk is marked as shareable, or readonly). The scenarios
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to be prevented are thus:
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</p>
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<ol>
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<li>
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Two different guests running configured to point at the
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same disk image.
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</li>
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<li>
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One guest being started more than once on two different
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machines due to admin mistake
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</li>
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<li>
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One guest being started more than once on a single machine
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due to libvirt driver bug on a single machine.
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</li>
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</ol>
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<h2><a name="requirement">Requirements</a></h2>
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<p>
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The high level goal leads to a set of requirements
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for the lock manager design
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</p>
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<ol>
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<li>
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A lock must be held on a disk whenever a QEMU process
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has the disk open
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</li>
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<li>
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The lock scheme must allow QEMU to be configured with
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readonly, shared write, or exclusive writable disks
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</li>
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<li>
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A lock handover must be performed during the migration
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process where 2 QEMU processes will have the same disk
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open concurrently.
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</li>
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<li>
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The lock manager must be able to identify and kill the
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process accessing the resource if the lock is revoked.
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</li>
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<li>
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Locks can be acquired for arbitrary VM related resources,
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as determined by the management application.
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</li>
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</ol>
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<h2><a name="design">Design</a></h2>
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<p>
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Within a lock manager the following series of operations
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will need to be supported.
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<strong>Register object</strong>
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Register the identity of an object against which
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locks will be acquired
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>Add resource</strong>
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Associate a resource with an object for future
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lock acquisition / release
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>Acquire locks</strong>
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Acquire the locks for all resources associated
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with the object
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>Release locks</strong>
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Release the locks for all resources associated
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with the object
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>Inquire locks</strong>
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Get a representation of the state of the locks
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for all resources associated with the object
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="impl">Plugin Implementations</a></h2>
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<p>
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Lock manager implementations are provided as LGPLv2+
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licensed, dlopen()able library modules. The plugins
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will be loadable from the following location:
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</p>
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<pre>
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/usr/{lib,lib64}/libvirt/lock_manager/$NAME.so
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</pre>
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<p>
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The lock manager plugin must export a single ELF
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symbol named <code>virLockDriverImpl</code>, which is
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a static instance of the <code>virLockDriver</code>
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struct. The struct is defined in the header file
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</p>
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<pre>
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#include <libvirt/plugins/lock_manager.h>
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</pre>
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<p>
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All callbacks in the struct must be initialized
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to non-NULL pointers. The semantics of each
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callback are defined in the API docs embedded
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in the previously mentioned header file
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</p>
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<h2><a name="qemuIntegrate">QEMU Driver integration</a></h2>
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<p>
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With the QEMU driver, the lock plugin will be set
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in the <code>/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf</code> configuration
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file by specifying the lock manager name.
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</p>
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<pre>
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lockManager="sanlock"
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</pre>
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<p>
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By default the lock manager will be a 'no op' implementation
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for backwards compatibility
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</p>
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<h2><a name="usagePatterns">Lock usage patterns</a></h2>
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<p>
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The following pseudo code illustrates the common
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patterns of operations invoked on the lock
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manager plugin callbacks.
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</p>
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<h3><a name="usageLockAcquire">Lock acquisition</a></h3>
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<p>
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Initial lock acquisition will be performed from the
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process that is to own the lock. This is typically
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the QEMU child process, in between the fork+exec
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pairing. When adding further resources on the fly,
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to an existing object holding locks, this will be
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done from the libvirtd process.
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</p>
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<pre>
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virLockManagerParam params[] = {
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UUID,
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.key = "uuid",
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},
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_STRING,
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.key = "name",
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.value = { .str = dom->def->name },
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},
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UINT,
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.key = "id",
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.value = { .i = dom->def->id },
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},
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UINT,
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.key = "pid",
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.value = { .i = dom->pid },
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},
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_CSTRING,
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.key = "uri",
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.value = { .cstr = driver->uri },
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},
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};
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mgr = virLockManagerNew(lockPlugin,
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VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_TYPE_DOMAIN,
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ARRAY_CARDINALITY(params),
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params,
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0)));
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foreach (initial disks)
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virLockManagerAddResource(mgr,
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VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_RESOURCE_TYPE_DISK,
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$path, 0, NULL, $flags);
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if (virLockManagerAcquire(lock, NULL, 0) < 0);
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...abort...
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</pre>
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<h3><a name="usageLockAttach">Lock release</a></h3>
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<p>
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The locks are all implicitly released when the process
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that acquired them exits, however, a process may
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voluntarily give up the lock by running
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</p>
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<pre>
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char *state = NULL;
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virLockManagerParam params[] = {
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UUID,
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.key = "uuid",
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},
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_STRING,
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.key = "name",
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.value = { .str = dom->def->name },
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},
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UINT,
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.key = "id",
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.value = { .i = dom->def->id },
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},
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UINT,
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.key = "pid",
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.value = { .i = dom->pid },
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},
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{ .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_CSTRING,
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.key = "uri",
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.value = { .cstr = driver->uri },
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},
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};
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mgr = virLockManagerNew(lockPlugin,
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VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_TYPE_DOMAIN,
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ARRAY_CARDINALITY(params),
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params,
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0)));
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foreach (initial disks)
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virLockManagerAddResource(mgr,
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VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_RESOURCE_TYPE_DISK,
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$path, 0, NULL, $flags);
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virLockManagerRelease(mgr, & state, 0);
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</pre>
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<p>
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The returned state string can be passed to the
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<code>virLockManagerAcquire</code> method to
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later re-acquire the exact same locks. This
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state transfer is commonly used when performing
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live migration of virtual machines. By validating
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the state the lock manager can ensure no other
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VM has re-acquire the same locks on a different
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host. The state can also be obtained without
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releasing the locks, by calling the
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<code>virLockManagerInquire</code> method.
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</p>
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