Re: qemu-kvm.git build problem

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:11:33AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:28:15AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>>> If so, I will try to write something like this the next days. Will
> >>>> surely appreciate your review afterwards!
> >>> Sounds good!
> >>>
> >> Here we go, find the commit inlined below. You may be primarily
> >> interested in kvm_synchronize_sched_expedited() and the helper thread
> >> function kvm_rcu_sync_thread. As I use a dedicated thread I simplified
> >> some parts compared to upstream. Light testing indicates that it works.
> > 
> > Cool!!!
> > 
> > Have you had a chance to run rcutorture on this implementation?
> > 
> 
> No, this would mean backporting rcutorture - is it straightforward
> (limited time...)?

If you aren't backporting too far, the following commit should do it for
you: 804bb8370522a569bd3a732b9de5fbd55e26f155

I do not believe that you should need to run rcutorture on all possible
old versions -- instead, pick some recent ones.  Please let me know if
this does not work out for you.

							Thanx, Paul