libxenlight: fix GC when cloning contexts

Provide a function to clone a context. This is necessary
because simply copying the structs will eventually
corrup the GC: maxsize is updated in the cloned context
but not in the originating, yet they have the same array
of referenced pointers alloc_ptrs.

Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_internal.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_internal.c
index a04ac8ddf7..eeadbfd71f 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_internal.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_internal.c
@@ -28,6 +28,28 @@ int libxl_error_set(struct libxl_ctx *ctx, int code)
     return 0;
 }
 
+int libxl_clone_context(struct libxl_ctx *from, struct libxl_ctx *to)
+{
+    /* We could just copy the structs, but since
+     * maxsize is not a pointer we need to take care
+     * of our own GC. */
+    *to = *from;
+    to->alloc_ptrs = NULL;
+    to->alloc_maxsize = 256;
+    to->alloc_ptrs = calloc(to->alloc_maxsize, sizeof(void *));
+    if (!to->alloc_ptrs)
+        return ERROR_NOMEM;
+    return 0;
+}
+
+void libxl_discard_cloned_context(struct libxl_ctx *ctx)
+{
+    /* We only need to worry about GC-related fields */
+    (void)libxl_ctx_free(ctx);
+    if (ctx->alloc_ptrs)
+        free(ctx->alloc_ptrs);
+}
+
 int libxl_ptr_add(struct libxl_ctx *ctx, void *ptr)
 {
     int i;