Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1675108] [NEW] Cocoa UI always crashes on startup

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:

> On Do, 2017-03-23 at 11:31 +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>>
>> > On 23 March 2017 at 11:13, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>> >> Technically its not a random thread its the vCPU context (which ensures
>> >> the vCPU isn't updating while the display is being updated). But I guess
>> >> the Cocoa is limited to not being able to update from an arbitrary
>> >> thread?
>> >
>> > Yes. It's very common for windowing libraries to mandate that you
>> > do all windowing operations from one specific thread.
>>
>> Fair enough. Well let me know if that works OK on MacOS and I'll fold it
>> in to the other console patches. In fact I might as well do the
>> start/end_exclusive dance for all OSes and it will achieve the same thing.
>
> Where do we stand with this one?

I've got two patches in my tree at the moment. I was holding off posting
the series to see if I could make more progress with the record/replay
bug. I'll post the series tomorrow morning but if you want to grab them
ahead of that see:

  https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/commit/6c0ddfc5752f311b4c5a2956de25821cc2cd3fd6
  https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/commit/15d2b05a20879017f20370b71d5d144947b693fe

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Alex Bennée