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authorRoger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>2013-03-05 17:06:29 +0000
committerIan Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>2013-03-13 14:40:23 +0000
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treebb956756b2e740f5da0118754c5de14c57b89135 /tools
parentb1c231b12aae6de7521bed69b41dcb07c8349cc7 (diff)
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libxl: don't launch more than one tapdisk process for each disk
When adding a disk don't launch multiple tapdisk instances for the same disk, if transaction fails in device_disk_add reuse the same tapdisk for further tries instead of creating a new instance each time a transaction fails. Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com> Tested-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/libxl/libxl.c17
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl.c b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
index 73e0dc312d..345d88b83f 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
@@ -2032,7 +2032,7 @@ static void device_disk_add(libxl__egc *egc, uint32_t domid,
STATE_AO_GC(aodev->ao);
flexarray_t *front = NULL;
flexarray_t *back = NULL;
- char *dev, *script;
+ char *dev = NULL, *script;
libxl__device *device;
int rc;
libxl_ctx *ctx = gc->owner;
@@ -2095,12 +2095,15 @@ static void device_disk_add(libxl__egc *egc, uint32_t domid,
break;
case LIBXL_DISK_BACKEND_TAP:
- dev = libxl__blktap_devpath(gc, disk->pdev_path, disk->format);
- if (!dev) {
- LOG(ERROR, "failed to get blktap devpath for %p\n",
- disk->pdev_path);
- rc = ERROR_FAIL;
- goto out;
+ if (dev == NULL) {
+ dev = libxl__blktap_devpath(gc, disk->pdev_path,
+ disk->format);
+ if (!dev) {
+ LOG(ERROR, "failed to get blktap devpath for %p\n",
+ disk->pdev_path);
+ rc = ERROR_FAIL;
+ goto out;
+ }
}
flexarray_append(back, "tapdisk-params");
flexarray_append(back, libxl__sprintf(gc, "%s:%s",