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author | Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> | 2011-12-18 14:58:10 +0100 |
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committer | Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> | 2011-12-20 00:17:14 +0100 |
commit | cbd37330bcd039587121a767280fc9fee597af6e (patch) | |
tree | cec5378a756b6fd927433916fbfb26f86cf17b42 /src/manager.h | |
parent | 81c3f1f6aba52ac5e95241b51083b61c7401be44 (diff) |
dbus: register to DBus asynchronously
Chen Jie observed and analyzed a deadlock. Assuming systemd-kmsg-syslogd
is already stopped, but rsyslogd is not started yet:
1. systemd makes a synchronous call to dbus-daemon.
2. dbus-daemon wants to write something to syslog.
3. syslog needs to be started by systemd.
... but cannot be, because systemd is waiting in 1.
Solve this by avoiding synchronous D-Bus calls. I had to write an async
bus registration call. Interestingly, D-Bus authors anticipated this, in
documentation to dbus_bus_set_unique_name():
> The only reason to use this function is to re-implement the equivalent
> of dbus_bus_register() yourself. One (probably unusual) reason to do
> that might be to do the bus registration call asynchronously instead
> of synchronously.
Lennart's comments from IRC:
> though I think this doesn't fix the problem in its entirety
> simply because dbus_connection_open_private() itself is still synchronous
> i.e. the connect() call behind it is not async
> I think I listed that issue actually on some D-Bus todo list
> i.e. to make dbus_connection_get() fully async
> but that's going to be hard
> so your patch looks good
So it may not be perfect, but it's clearly an improvement.
I did not manage to reproduce the original deadlock with the patch.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/manager.h')
-rw-r--r-- | src/manager.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/manager.h b/src/manager.h index 5deb5696b7..6e7558e175 100644 --- a/src/manager.h +++ b/src/manager.h @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ struct Manager { Hashmap *watch_bus; /* D-Bus names => Unit object n:1 */ int32_t name_data_slot; + int32_t conn_data_slot; int32_t subscribed_data_slot; uint32_t current_job_id; |