Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] qemu: Add and use qemuProcessEventFree for freeing qemuProcessEvents
On 02/05/2018 11:17 AM, Marc Hartmayer wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 10:35 AM +0100, Michal Privoznik
<mprivozn(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/02/2018 01:13 PM, Marc Hartmayer wrote:
>> Add and use qemuProcessEventFree for freeing qemuProcessEvents. This
>> is less error-prone as the compiler can help us make sure that for
>> every new enumeration value of qemuProcessEventType the
>> qemuProcessEventFree function has to be adapted.
>>
>> All process*Event functions are *only* called by
>> qemuProcessHandleEvent and this function does the freeing by itself
>> with qemuProcessEventFree. This means that an explicit freeing of
>> processEvent->data is no longer required in each process*Event
>> handler.
>>
>> The effectiveness of this change is also demonstrated by the fact that
>> it fixes a memory leak of the panic info data in
>> qemuProcessHandleGuestPanic.
>>
>> Reported-by: Wang Dong <dongdwdw(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>> src/qemu/qemu_domain.h | 2 ++
>> src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 12 ++----------
>> src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 22 +++++++---------------
>> 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>>
>
> ACK with that changed.
>
> As a second step - should we move all those virObjectUnref(vm) calls
> into qemuProcessEventFree()? I mean those cases where
> virThreadPoolSendJob() fails and we call virObjectUnref(vm) followed by
> qemuProcessEventFree().
Should work, but only if we can be sure that event->vm is always NULL
when no referencing has taken place. And I think we’ve to adapt the way
how for example qemuProcessHandleWatchdog is working (it uses the
information of virObjectUnref(vm)).
But another question that came up to my mind: where happens the
unreferencing of the domain in the qemuProcessEventHandler? There is on
unreferencing in the virDomainObjEndAPI() call - is this the call?
Yes. That's why I haven't made it in this patch but said it needs to be
done separately. If we replace virDomainObjEndAPI() with just Unlock()
and do the unref() in qemuProcessEventFree() it would look nicer IMO. I
mean, visually it looks weird to have:
Lock();
...
EndAPI(); // which does Unlock() + Unref()
since we're not doing Ref() in this function.
Michal