Re: [Xen-devel] libvirt libxl timer handling issue

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Fehlig writes ("Re: libvirt libxl timer handling issue"):
> Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I think this is due to libxl_event.c not clearing the ->func member of
> > its timeout structs when the timeout occurs.  TBH it's surprising that
> > this hasn't caused more trouble and I haven't been able to test this
> > so I'm not sure.

I have now tested this.  I can confirm that this bug is real, and I
understand why we haven't spotted it before.  My fix is correct, I
think.

> > But please take a look at
> >   git://xenbits.xen.org/people/iwj/xen.git#wip.timeout-func0

I have rebased that ref.

> Ok, thanks. I'll give this a try in a bit.

Good luck and please let me know.

> Well, I should spend some time becoming familiar with this part of libxl
> so I can help fix issues too, instead of whining about them :).

TBH I'm hoping that this lot will only need debugging once ...

I'm going to post v3 of my event fixes series RSN.
(This time for sure...)

Ian.

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