From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:48:16 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] fold struct vcpu_info into CPUState
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Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> It looks like qemu is actually switching threads when this happens...
> I'm not sure what the current state is of qemu/KVM threads... I think we
> have 1 thread per vcpu, plus 1 IO thread? If that's right, maybe
> current_env isn't being initialized in the IO thread; I only see that
> happening inside ap_main_loop(), which is the vcpu thread.
> 

Hmmm, this is bizarre. If it was the IO thread dieing because of this
I would expect the same to happen on ia64. Could you try and add a test
in the code to find out which thread you are when you die, and maybe
check for current_env being valid?

Thanks,
Jes