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From: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
To: "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ia64-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	carsteno@de.ibm.com, Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [04/17] [PATCH] Add kvm arch-specific core code for kvm/ia64.-V8
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:53:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47F1E9F8.6010801@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42DFA526FC41B1429CE7279EF83C6BDC01048488@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com>

Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> Hi, Carsten 
>      Why do you think it is racy?  In this function,
> target_vcpu->arch.launched should be set to 1 for the first run, and
> keep its value all the time.  Except the first IPI to wake up the vcpu,
> all IPIs received by target vcpu should go into "else" condition. So you
> mean the race condition exist in "else"  code ?
For example to lock against destroying that vcpu. Or, the waitqueue 
may become active after if (waitqueue_active()) and before 
wake_up_interruptible(). In that case, the target vcpu might sleep and 
not get waken up by the ipi.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-01  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-31  8:26 [04/17] [PATCH] Add kvm arch-specific core code for kvm/ia64.-V8 Zhang, Xiantao
2008-03-31 12:01 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-04-01  1:31   ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-03-31 14:52 ` Carsten Otte
2008-04-01  1:51   ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-04-01  2:16   ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-04-01  7:53     ` Carsten Otte [this message]
2008-04-01  9:43       ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-04-01 10:59         ` Carsten Otte
2008-04-01 11:05           ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-04-01 11:49             ` Carsten Otte

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