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From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.1] Switch SIG_IPI to SIGUSR1
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 00:36:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAAF17B.6090801@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FAAEC41.70608@siemens.com>

Am 10.05.2012 00:14, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
> Use SIGUSR1 unconditionally as SIG_IPI. First, ucontext coroutines tend
> to corrupt RT signal masks due to a 32-on-64-bit Linux kernel bug. And,
> second, there appears to be no advantage in using RT signals for VCPU
> kicking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> ---
[...]
> This is also stable material.

Please cc qemu-stable then. When omitting that in the original patch
submission, stable maintainers won't notice when the patch gets a
"Thanks, applied" reply.

/-F

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-09 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-09 22:14 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.1] Switch SIG_IPI to SIGUSR1 Jan Kiszka
2012-05-09 22:36 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2012-05-10  9:35 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-14 15:04 ` Anthony Liguori

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