Re: external module sched_in event

Avi Kivity
2007-12-25T09:00:27Z

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 07:37:40PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> The sched_in notifier needs to enable interrupts (but it must disable
>> preemption to avoid recursion).
>>
>
> Ok this update fixes the smp_call_function deadlock.
>
>

I was able to boot a 4-way guest on a 2-way i386 host, so looks like
this works. Thanks, it will reduce the maintenance burden needed for
the external module.

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