Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 00/31] libxl child process handling

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 00/31] libxl child process 
handling"):
> On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 20:07 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Bugfixes for problems reported by Roger Pau Monne:
> >   02/31 libxl: ao: allow immediate completion
> >   03/31 libxl: fix hang due to libxl__initiate_device_remove
> >   04/31 libxl: Fix eventloop_iteration over-locking
> > * 05/31 libxl: remove poller from list in libxl__poller_get
> > 
> > Other general bugfixes:
> > * 01/31 .gitignore: Add a missing file
> >   06/31 libxl: Fix leak of ctx->lock
> >   07/31 tools: Correct PTHREAD options in config/StdGNU.mk
> >   08/31 libxl: Use PTHREAD_CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS
> >   09/31 tools: Use PTHREAD_CFLAGS, _LDFLAGS, _LIBS
> 
> I think all of the above are now acked and since they are largely
> unrelated to the overall thrust of the series could easily go in now?

Yes.

> >   26/31 libxl: Clean up setdefault in do_domain_create
> >   30/31 libxl: make libxl_create_logfile const-correct
> > 
> > Clarifications and improvements related to memory allocation:
> >   10/31 libxl: Crash (more sensibly) on malloc failure
> >   11/31 libxl: Make libxl__zalloc et al tolerate a NULL gc
> 
> These two could probably go in now too, especially 10/31 would be useful
> to have sooner rather than later so we can stop writing error handling
> code...

Yes.

> Actually the more I read the more I see that a good chunk of the front
> of this series could go in now. Is that what you are planning to do?

Indeed.  I was holding off before because I hadn't actually executed
any of it, but I have now.

I intend to apply as much as I quickly get acks for.

Thanks,
Ian.

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