[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] char: Flush read buffer in mux_chr_can_read

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 15.05.2010, at 10:36, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> On 14.05.2010, at 18:17, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>> Now that I can finally reproduce the bug with --enable-io-thread, I can verify that it does *not* fix the issue.
>>>> I do not trust your tests. :p
>>>>
>>>> I just tried to reproduce with --enable-io-thread and the setup I
>>>> described above - all still fine here. Can you reproduce with an x86 guest?
>>> Nope, it works fine with an x86 guest. I put the following in /etc/inittab of my guest:
>>>
>>> 11:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear /dev/hvc0 linux
>>>
>>> One major thing to keep in mind when talking about s390 guests is that we almost never trap into userspace.
>> Do you have the same problem when using an unbuffered backend, e.g. pty?
>> Maybe that single-byte "fifo" of stdio makes the difference, though I
>> wonder why only on s390 (guest exists should not block the polling done
>> by the io-thread, just accelerate it).
> 
> Mind to give me a small example on how to use that? :)

-chardev pty,...

echo whatever > /dev/pts/<n>

Or you set up a telnet server.

Jan


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