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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 4/5] s390x/kvm: test whether a cpu is
 STOPPED when checking "has_work"
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:19:35 +0200
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Il 28/07/2014 16:16, David Hildenbrand ha scritto:
> Later, another vcpu might decide to turn that vcpu back on (by e.g. sending a
> SIGP START to that vcpu).
> 
> I am not sure if such a mechanism/scenario is applicable to any other arch. They
> all seem to reset the cs->halted flag if they know they are able to run (e.g.
> due to an interrupt) - they have no such thing as "stopped cpus", only
> "halted/waiting cpus".

On x86, INIT_RECEIVED is pretty much a stopped CPU.  It can only run
(and receive interrupts) after getting a special startup interrupt ("SIPI").

Paolo