As qemuMonitorJSONIOProcess will call qemuMonitorJSONIOProcessEvent which unlocks the monitor mutex, there is some extreme situation, eg qemu send message to monitor twice in a short time, where the local viriable 'msg' of qemuMonitorIOProcess could be a wild point: 1. qemuMonitorSend() assign mon->msg to parameter 'msg', which is alse a local variable of its caller qemuMonitorJSONCommandWithFd(), cause eventloop to send message to monitor, then wait condition. 2. qemu send message to monitor for the first time immediately. 3. qemuMonitorIOProcess() is called, then wake up the qemuMonitorSend() thread, but the qemuMonitorSend() thread stuck for a while as cpu pressure or some other reasons, which means the qemu monitor is still unlocked. 4. qemu send event message to monitor for the second time, such as RTC_CHANGE event 5. qemuMonitorIOProcess() is called again, the local viriable 'msg' is assigned to mon->msg. 6. qemuMonitorIOProcess() call qemuMonitorJSONIOProcess() to deal with the qemu event. 7. qemuMonitorJSONIOProcess() unlock the qemu monitor in the macro 'QEMU_MONITOR_CALLBACK', then qemuMonitorSend() thread get the mutex and free the mon->msg, assign mon->msg to NULL. Signed-off-by: Weilun Zhu <zhuweilun@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
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:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are
not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING
for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure
script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: