From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>,
Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm: qemu: stop/start cpus before/after devices
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:52:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CA451D.2060204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090325143932.GB28345@amt.cnet>
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:26:19AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:45:52PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com>
>>>>
>>>> Stop cpus before devices when stopping the VM, start cpus after devices
>>>> when starting VM.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Why is this needed?
>>>
>> A vcpu could access a stopped device otherwise.
>>
>
> Actually on vm_stop its safe because the order happens to be correct,
> but on vm_start its the other way around (vcpus start first, and they
> should be started last).
>
Right, applied the patch, thanks.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 17:16 kvm: qemu: stop/start cpus before/after devices Marcelo Tosatti
2009-03-25 11:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-25 14:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-03-25 14:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-03-25 14:52 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-03-26 10:03 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-26 16:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-03-26 18:45 ` Avi Kivity
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