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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v6] KVM: PPC: booke: Add watchdog emulation
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:13:14 -0500
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On 07/31/2012 06:59 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Well, user space always comes in via the ioctl path, which in turn
> does vcpu_load(vcpu), thus should always be running as the vcpu
> context itself.

Right, it's the timers you're racing with.

> It boils down to the original thing I was saying back when you
> introduced asynchronous TSR updates.

Right.

> Why don't we just make TSR
> updates kvm requests? 

Maybe we should.

-Scott