Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] (RFC) remove the GThread coroutine implementation

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

Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 07:20:54AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>
>> Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> writes:
>>
>> > On 04/28/2017 02:24 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> >> At the 2016 summit it was suggested that we delete the GThread
>> >> coroutine impl since it is not fully functional, and you can
>> >> debug the ucontext impl with our GDB helper script.
>> >>
>> >> I don't recall the subject being raised again since the summit
>> >> so here's a proposal to delete the GThread impl, as a way to
>> >> trigger input from anyone who thinks we need to keep it......
>> >
>> > The last time this was mentioned, the reason that we were keeping it
>> > was to make clang's thread-sanitizer module happy.  Whether we can
>> > still find relevant bugs with that, I don't know.
>>
>> It's been a while since I last did a ThreadSanitizer run. The correct
>> fix is teaching the sanitizer about set context so we can use our normal
>> build - however this has been at the bottom of a pile for such a long
>> time.
>
> Any objections to merging this patch?

I shall not stand in its way ;-)

Acked-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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Alex Bennée