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Ondřej Lysoněk a9f2b27d30 Rework device handling to avoid races caused by hotplug
This patch fixes (at least) the following race conditions:
1. If a device is attached while iterating assigned devices, the
   MonitorObserver thread can attempt to insert the newly attached
   device to the assigned_devices set while the set is being iterated,
   which results in the following exception:
   RuntimeError: Set changed size during iteration
2. Some devices can be missed when applying a tuning - devices are enumerated
   (i.e., Plugin._init_devices() gets called) before udev device monitoring is
   started (hotplug.Plugin._hardware_events_init() gets called), so devices
   that appear between these two actions are not tuned.
3. Device monitoring is stopped too late, which can result in some tunings
   not being unapplied after stopping a profile. This can happen for devices
   that get added during profile rollback after unit_manager.stop_tuning()
   gets called, but before unit_manager.destroy_all() gets called.
4. It can happen that tuning is applied twice for a device if it is added
   during profile activation, e.g. after unit_manager.create() is called in
   Daemon._thread_code(), but before unit_manager.start_tuning() is called.
   Apart from unnecessarily applying the tuning twice, it can result in
   overwriting saved original settings for the device and hence our inability
   to properly roll back our changes to the settings.
5. The observer thread can attempt to use load_monitor before it's created
   in Plugin._instance_init(), which can result in AttributeError.

Hopefully it doesn't introduce new race conditions :).

The fix is to:
1. rearrange the sequence of certain actions,
2. separate Instance.devices to two separate sets: processed_devices
   and assigned_devices.

   processed_devices are never iterated when the MonitorObserver thread
   is running (*), so the first problem described above cannot happen.
   The set is used to store devices, which have already been tuned.

   The assigned_devices set is now the set of devices that are going
   to be tuned. The set can only be accessed by the main thread.

   (*) Except when verifying tuning - this is fixed in a follow-up patch

I tried to separate the changes into more digestable patches, but I
couldn't figure out how.

Resolves: rhbz#1592743

Signed-off-by: Ondřej Lysoněk <olysonek@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 19:52:07 +01:00
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__init__.py plugins tests: initial tests for base class 2012-10-26 17:59:29 +02:00
test_base.py Rework device handling to avoid races caused by hotplug 2019-03-06 19:52:07 +01:00