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Re: [PATCH 4/5] tools/xenstored: remove "-N" command line option


  • To: Edwin Torok <edwin.torok@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:50:15 +0100
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  • Delivery-date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:50:28 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 15.11.23 09:31, Edwin Torok wrote:


On 14 Nov 2023, at 22:11, Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 13/11/2023 12:43 pm, Juergen Gross wrote:
The "-N" (do not daemonize) command line option is of questionable use:
its sole purpose seems to be to aid debugging of xenstored by making it
easier to start xenstored under gdb, or to see any debug messages
easily.

Debug messages can as well be sent to syslog(), while gdb can be
attached to the daemon easily. The only not covered case is an error
while initializing xenstored, but this could be handled e.g. by saving
a core dump, which can be analyzed later.

The call of talloc_enable_leak_report_full() done only with "-N"
specified is no longer needed, as the same can be achieved via
"xenstore-control memreport".

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

CC Edvin.

There's a patch out to specifically use this option (under systemd) to
fix a bug we found.

I can't recall the details, but I seem to recall it wasn't specific to
oxenstored.



The patch is here 
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/ECFA15A7-9DC8-4476-8D0B-44A6D12192D6@xxxxxxxxx/

It is about not losing stderr when run under systemd (well you can use syslog 
but what if your connection to syslog fails or you fail before getting to the 
point of parsing which syslog to use).
Alternatively we could have a "don't redirect stderr to /dev/null" flag,
but such redirections are usually expected when daemonizing.

It'd be good if the --no-fork flag could be retained for C xenstored, currently 
there is a CI failure on a non-systemd system that I'm trying to fix (a bit 
blindly because I don't have such a system myself), but from my testing the 
flag does work on a systemd system with C xenstored.

The patch is motivated by having some undebuggable issues in oxenstored where 
it just exits without writing any messages and without dumping core, so by 
retaining the stderr path we should have an output of last resort in case 
something goes so wrong that the syslog error handler cannot function.

Using the --no-fork as in your patch would mean that setting the oom_score in
the lauch_xenstore script wouldn't be executed any longer, right?


Juergen

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