Re: KVM: kvm_vcpu_block task state race

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 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.
>   

We'd better change it.  Suppose your vcpu is spinning, and you want to 
find out why?

One nice thing would be to add an on_vcpu(void (*func)(void *data), void 
*data), so that people don't have to open-code it for things like this.  
I tried to do this once, but backed off due to the mess that qemu-kvm 
threading was at the time.  I think it's much better off now.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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