libvirt/src
Daniel P. Berrange 61b52d2e38 Fix potential deadlock across fork() in QEMU driver
The hook scripts used by virCommand must be careful wrt
accessing any mutexes that may have been held by other
threads in the parent process. With the recent refactoring
there are 2 potential flaws lurking, which will become real
deadlock bugs once the global QEMU driver lock is removed.

Remove use of the QEMU driver lock from the hook function
by passing in the 'virQEMUDriverConfigPtr' instance directly.

Add functions to the virSecurityManager to be invoked before
and after fork, to ensure the mutex is held by the current
thread. This allows it to be safely used in the hook script
in the child process.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2013-02-12 11:05:31 +00:00
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conf S390: domain_conf support for CCW 2013-02-11 16:38:21 -07:00
cpu cpu: Avoid NULL dereference 2013-01-07 17:11:57 -07:00
esx Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
hyperv hyperv: Simplify hypervPrivate pointer handling in hypervOpen 2013-02-02 12:33:33 +01:00
interface interface: Need to initialize 'ifaces_list' 2013-01-22 17:29:26 +01:00
libxl Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
locking docs: aesthetical cleanups 2013-01-30 09:37:03 +01:00
lxc Turn virSecurityManager into a virObjectLockable 2013-02-11 12:33:41 +00:00
network network: Remove conditional settings to resolve resource leak 2013-02-05 16:51:07 -05:00
node_device nodedev: Implement virNodeDeviceLookupSCSIHostByWWN 2013-02-12 00:23:57 +08:00
nwfilter virCondDestroy: Lose attribute RETURN_CHECK 2013-02-08 09:12:11 +01:00
openvz Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
parallels Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
phyp Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
qemu Fix potential deadlock across fork() in QEMU driver 2013-02-12 11:05:31 +00:00
remote remote: Wire up the remote protocol 2013-02-12 00:23:57 +08:00
rpc remote: Wire up the remote protocol 2013-02-12 00:23:57 +08:00
secret Rename virterror.c virterror_internal.h to virerror.{c,h} 2012-12-21 11:19:50 +00:00
security Fix potential deadlock across fork() in QEMU driver 2013-02-12 11:05:31 +00:00
storage sheepdog: skip refresh on creation failure 2013-02-08 14:38:52 -07:00
test Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
uml Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
util util: refactor iptables command construction into multiple steps 2013-02-08 14:19:30 -07:00
vbox Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
vmware Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
vmx Rename virterror.c virterror_internal.h to virerror.{c,h} 2012-12-21 11:19:50 +00:00
xen hypervisor: Restore pm initialization 2013-02-12 00:32:57 +08:00
xenapi Turn virCapabilities into a virObject 2013-02-08 11:34:26 +00:00
xenxs Rename virterror.c virterror_internal.h to virerror.{c,h} 2012-12-21 11:19:50 +00:00
check-symfile.pl Check for private symbols presence as well 2012-10-05 15:04:56 +02:00
check-symsorting.pl Fix sorting of libvirt_private.syms and add syntax check rule 2012-12-12 10:45:37 +00:00
datatypes.c Allow for multi-level inheritance of virObject classes 2013-01-15 19:21:31 +00:00
datatypes.h Rename threads.{c,h} to virthread.{c,h} 2012-12-21 11:19:49 +00:00
driver.c Rename util.{c,h} to virutil.{c,h} 2012-12-21 11:19:49 +00:00
driver.h Introduce API virNodeDeviceLookupSCSIHostByWWN 2013-02-12 00:23:57 +08:00
dtrace2systemtap.pl maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
fdstream.c Rename virterror.c virterror_internal.h to virerror.{c,h} 2012-12-21 11:19:50 +00:00
fdstream.h Rename command.{c,h} to vircommand.{c,h} 2012-12-21 11:17:13 +00:00
gnutls_1_0_compat.h maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies 2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
internal.h Introduce an LXC specific public API & library 2013-01-14 13:58:34 +00:00
libvirt_atomic.syms maint: make it easier to sort syms files 2013-01-25 08:33:09 -07:00
libvirt_daemon.syms maint: make it easier to sort syms files 2013-01-25 08:33:09 -07:00
libvirt_driver_modules.syms maint: one missed syms file 2013-01-26 09:59:12 -07:00
libvirt_esx.syms maint: make it easier to sort syms files 2013-01-25 08:33:09 -07:00
libvirt_internal.h Add support for offline migration 2012-12-10 21:52:15 +01:00
libvirt_libssh2.syms maint: make it easier to sort syms files 2013-01-25 08:33:09 -07:00
libvirt_linux.syms maint: make it easier to sort syms files 2013-01-25 08:33:09 -07:00
libvirt_lxc.syms Introduce an LXC specific public API & library 2013-01-14 13:58:34 +00:00
libvirt_openvz.syms maint: make it easier to sort syms files 2013-01-25 08:33:09 -07:00
libvirt_private.syms Fix potential deadlock across fork() in QEMU driver 2013-02-12 11:05:31 +00:00
libvirt_probes.d Turn virNetClient* into virObject instances 2012-08-07 11:47:55 +01:00
libvirt_public.syms Introduce API virNodeDeviceLookupSCSIHostByWWN 2013-02-12 00:23:57 +08:00
libvirt_qemu_probes.d build: fix binary location in stap files --with-driver-modules 2012-08-10 23:11:26 -04:00
libvirt_qemu.syms qemu-agent: available in 0.10.0 2012-08-23 13:05:52 -06:00
libvirt_sasl.syms maint: make it easier to sort syms files 2013-01-25 08:33:09 -07:00
libvirt_vmx.syms maint: make it easier to sort syms files 2013-01-25 08:33:09 -07:00
libvirt_xenxs.syms maint: make it easier to sort syms files 2013-01-25 08:33:09 -07:00
libvirt-lxc.c Introduce an LXC specific public API & library 2013-01-14 13:58:34 +00:00
libvirt-qemu.c Rename virterror.c virterror_internal.h to virerror.{c,h} 2012-12-21 11:19:50 +00:00
libvirt.c Introduce API virNodeDeviceLookupSCSIHostByWWN 2013-02-12 00:23:57 +08:00
libvirt.conf Allow overriding default URI in config file 2012-03-15 11:20:17 +00:00
lxc_protocol-structs build: add new file, for lxc_protocol checking 2013-01-15 12:01:22 -07:00
Makefile.am build: Add libcurl dependency to libvirt_driver.la 2013-02-05 10:00:32 +01:00
nodeinfo.c Ensure nodeinfo struct is initialized to zero 2013-01-24 14:13:26 +00:00
nodeinfo.h cpustat: fix regression when cpus are offline 2012-10-26 15:34:52 -06:00
qemu_protocol-structs agent: add remote driver support 2012-08-23 19:05:50 +08:00
README hyperv: Add basic documentation 2011-08-26 17:52:55 +02:00
remote_protocol-structs build: fix make check of remote_protocol-structs 2013-02-11 15:34:49 -05:00
virkeepaliveprotocol-structs build: Properly generate and check virkeepaliveprotocol-structs 2011-11-24 14:44:04 +01:00
virnetprotocol-structs Extend RPC protocol to allow FD passing 2011-10-28 10:27:15 +01:00

       libvirt library code README
       ===========================

The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.

The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.

There are two core shared modules to be aware of:

 * util/  - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
            code. This directory is always in the include path
            for all things built

 * conf/  - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
            files used by the public API. This directory is only
            in the include path for driver implementation modules

 * vmx/   - VMware VMX config handling (used by esx/ and vmware/)


Then there are the hypervisor implementations:

 * esx/          - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
 * hyperv/       - Microsoft Hyper-V support using WinRM
 * lxc/          - Linux Native Containers
 * openvz/       - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
 * phyp/         - IBM Power Hypervisor using CLI tools over SSH
 * qemu/         - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
 * remote/       - Generic libvirt native RPC client
 * test/         - A "mock" driver for testing
 * uml/          - User Mode Linux
 * vbox/         - Virtual Box using native API
 * vmware/       - VMware Workstation and Player using the vmrun tool
 * xen/          - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore
 * xenapi/       - Xen using libxenserver


Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU, UML and Xen drivers.
The ESX, Hyper-V, Power Hypervisor, Remote, Test & VirtualBox drivers all
implement the secondary drivers directly

 * cpu/          - CPU feature management
 * interface/    - Host network interface management
 * network/      - Virtual NAT networking
 * nwfilter/     - Network traffic filtering rules
 * node_device/  - Host device enumeration
 * secret/       - Secret management
 * security/     - Mandatory access control drivers
 * storage/      - Storage management drivers


Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories