Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 03/18] libxl: functions to lock / unlock domain data in libxl user data store

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 01:40:42PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 19:23 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > The term "domain data" means libxl's knowledge of a domain, which
> > includes but not limit to domain configuration.
> 
> I think this may be the root of my confusion about the locking strategy
> you are deploying in this series. I took "domain configuration" here to
> mean exactly the libxl-json userdata.
> 
> It seems like you are also including any application specific userdata
> associated with the domain in "libxl's knowledge of a domain". Is that
> right?
> 

I've mentioned this in other email but I reiterate the important bit
here for the record.

Yes, this "libxl's knowledge of a domain". The registry entry will be
changed to domain-userdata-lock.

This lock is used to protect against domain destruction.

Wei.

> Ian.

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