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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Mark VCPU state dirty on creation
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:15:36 +0100
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On 2011-02-28 10:20, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 01:28 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> This avoids that early cpu_synchronize_state calls try to retrieve an
>> uninitialized state from the kernel,
> 
> Thanks, applied.
> 
>> which even causes a deadlock.
>>
> 
> How?

Early hw_error. It collects the CPU states, also during initial device
setup, ie. before the VCPUs have been started.

Jan

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