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We're seeing bugs apparently resulting from thread unsafety of libpciaccess, such as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/726099 To prevent those, as suggested by danpb on irc, move the nodeDeviceLock(driverState) higher into the callers. In particular: udevDeviceMonitorStartup should hold the lock while calling udevEnumerateDevices(), and udevEventHandleCallback should hold it over its entire execution. It's not clear to me whether it is ok to hold the nodeDeviceLock while taking the virNodeDeviceObjLock(dev) on a device. If not, then the lock will need to be dropped around the calling of udevSetupSystemDev(), and udevAddOneDevice() may not actually be safe to call from higher layers with the driverstate lock held. libvirt 0.8.8 with this patch on it seems to work fine for me. Assuming it looks ok and I haven't done anything obviously dumb, I'll ask the bug submitters to try this patch. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>