Re: [Xen-devel] OT: xen libvirt issue

[AL13N <alien@xxxxxxxx>]

Op maandag 8 april 2013 17:09:52 schreef Ian Jackson:
> AL13N writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] OT: xen libvirt issue"):
> > Op maandag 8 april 2013 06:22:49 schreef Marek Marczykowski:
> > > I believe it is already fixed in unstable by this commit:
> > > 5f5ef65babc2ca15f43b775c4b47b0102fa2a632 "libxl: fix stale timeout event
> > > callback race"
> > > 
> > > Sadly backport to 4.2 isn't trivial.
> > 
> > Looking at the patch i totally agree that it isn't trivial...
> > 
> > i'll hold off for now. and will work more towards libvirt integration for
> > Mageia 4 (our release freeze is now in effect for Mageia 3).
> 
> We have already done the backport.  The fix for this has been in Xen
> upstream 4.2-staging since the 22nd of February.  You want these two
> commits from xen.git:
> 
>   commit a87ef897295ec17788e41e9a8f4c0ada7a5a45f8
>   Author: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date:   Wed Jan 23 16:53:11 2013 +0000
> 
>       libxl: fix stale fd event callback race
> 
>   commit 6f0f339dd4378d062a211969f45cd23af12bf386
>   Author: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date:   Wed Jan 23 16:53:11 2013 +0000
> 
>       libxl: fix stale timeout event callback race
> 
> I don't know if that's any help for your Mageia release, of course.

i was more worried about the comments in the patch, ie: that it changes how 
tools using this (libvirt maybe) would need to be recoded.

but since it's backported, i might as well try them

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