Re: [PATCH 2/2] qemu-kvm: Fix guest resetting v2

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Resetting guests used to be racy, deadlock-prone, or simply broken (for
>> SMP). This patch fixes the issues, following Marcelo's suggestion to
>> consolidate the reset activity in the I/O thread. All vcpus are cleanly
>> stopped before the emulated hardware is reset, and kvm_arch_cpu_reset is
>> introduced and invoked to ensure that non-boot cpus are put into the
>> right state on x86. Note that other arch may need to look into this
>> service as well to get SMP reset right.
>>
>>   
> 
> hmm.  This means that reset is executed asynchronously of the calling cpu.

Nope, the calling cpu is put in stopped state after informing the I/O
thread about the reset request. We just cannot control when the request
is handled /wrt to other cpus, but that's not different from real life I
guess.

Jan


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