xenconsoled: improve robustness of logfile handling
authorKeir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:05:54 +0000 (21:05 +0100)
committerKeir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:05:54 +0000 (21:05 +0100)
Check the 'log_reload' on every iteration of the select() loop, not just when
select() returns EINTR. This is because the log reload signal may have
iterrupted a syscall other than select & thus without this change  we
might miss the reload signal.  The second change makes us process the
hypervisor logs on every iteration of the loop, not just upon timeouts.
This is because if a guest VM were consistently sending some log message
and < 1 second period, the select() would never hit the 1 second timeout
and thus never process the HV logs.

Thanks to Markus Armbruster for pointing out both these edge cases

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
tools/console/daemon/io.c

index d67f4c3abd860a69de9310b964eda6dae6fdb5c6..42015ebc290893af7767fe48e6b6106e985a90bd 100644 (file)
@@ -764,27 +764,31 @@ void handle_io(void)
                /* XXX I wish we didn't have to busy wait for hypervisor logs
                 * but there's no obvious way to get event channel notifications
                 * for new HV log data as we can with guest */
-               ret = select(max_fd + 1, &readfds, &writefds, 0, log_hv_fd != -1 ? &timeout : NULL);
+               ret = select(max_fd + 1, &readfds, &writefds, 0,
+                            log_hv_fd != -1 ? &timeout : NULL);
 
+               if (log_reload) {
+                       handle_log_reload();
+                       log_reload = 0;
+               }
+
+               /* Abort if select failed, except for EINTR cases
+                  which indicate a possible log reload */
                if (ret == -1) {
-                       if (errno == EINTR) {
-                               if (log_reload) {
-                                       handle_log_reload();
-                                       log_reload = 0;
-                               }
+                       if (errno == EINTR)
                                continue;
-                       }
                        dolog(LOG_ERR, "Failure in select: %d (%s)",
                              errno, strerror(errno));
                        break;
                }
 
-               /* Check for timeout */
-               if (ret == 0) {
-                       if (log_hv_fd != -1)
-                               handle_hv_logs();
+               /* Always process HV logs even if not a timeout */
+               if (log_hv_fd != -1)
+                       handle_hv_logs();
+
+               /* Must not check returned FDSET if it was a timeout */
+               if (ret == 0)
                        continue;
-               }
 
                if (FD_ISSET(xs_fileno(xs), &readfds))
                        handle_xs();
@@ -806,10 +810,14 @@ void handle_io(void)
                }
        }
 
-       if (log_hv_fd != -1)
+       if (log_hv_fd != -1) {
                close(log_hv_fd);
-       if (xc_handle != -1)
+               log_hv_fd = -1;
+       }
+       if (xc_handle != -1) {
                xc_interface_close(xc_handle);
+               xc_handle = -1;
+       }
 }
 
 /*