On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:40:09PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This patch would fix the case where paused/running state is changed
> during live migration.  In order to do so, libvirt attaches an
> event handler that tracks the paused/running state on the source side.
> Then, based on the state _just before_ the end of the migration, it can
> stick a VIR_MIGRATE_PAUSED flag into the flags passed to MigrateFinish
> or MigrateFinish2.  It is not a problem for the QEMU driver if the flag
> is not passed in the Perform callback.
> 
> This would have the advantage of working even with asynchronous changes
> to the state that can happen during the migration itself.  However, since
> the driver lock is held during migration, this is basically impossible to
> test until asynchronous notifications are in place.  Also, it is somewhat
> inherently racy: maybe when notifications are added to QEMU, it should
> also have a "sync" monitor command to flush all notifications.
>
> Hence, this is just an RFC.
> 
> * src/libvirt.c (struct _migrateEventState, migrateEventState,
> virMigrateEventCallback): New.
> (virDomainMigrateVersion1, virDomainMigrateVersion2): Use them.
> ---
>  src/libvirt.c |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c
> index 9d03e13..12e90cd 100644
> --- a/src/libvirt.c
> +++ b/src/libvirt.c
> @@ -2951,6 +2951,42 @@ error:
>      return NULL;
>  }
>  
>  
> -    virDomainGetInfo (domain, &info);
> -    if (info.state == VIR_DOMAIN_PAUSED) {
> -        flags |= VIR_MIGRATE_PAUSED;
> +    data.domain = domain;
> +    if (virConnectDomainEventRegister (domain->conn, virMigrateEventCallback,
> +                                       &data, NULL) == -1) {
> +        return NULL;
>      }

Calling virConnectDomainEventRegister() is not valid unless the application
has registered an event loop impl with libvit (virEventRegister), but we
cannot assume it has done so.

Daniel.
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