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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: KVM: kvm_vcpu_block task state race
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 16:27:42 -0300
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On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:22:08PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> For things like register dumps I don't believe its worthwhile. Much
> simpler to stop the vcpu with SIG_IPI, retrieve registers, and run it
> again (now that you mention the busy-spin, it is broken right now, if a
> vcpu is spinning without exiting to userspace).

... which is what Jan's gdb/monitor patch does.


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