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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Matthew Bloch <matthew@bytemark.co.uk>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix freezing bug in curses console
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:21:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090228212116.GL20640@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A85541.7040805@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>It's racy with select().  A better fix would be to create a pipe and write
> >>to that pipe in the SIGWINCH handler.  You should then register an io
> >>    
> >
> >Maybe a bottom half would work?  The scheduling of a bh shouldn't
> >constitute "real work".
> 
> I think it still suffers from the same race condition so today it 
> wouldn't work.  You could fix the bottom half scheduling though so that 
> you could safely schedule a bottom half from a signal handler (using 
> roughly the same trick).

Fwiw, it's perfectly sensible to have a single pipe which is shared by
all signal handlers, just used to say "check for work flags set".

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-28 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-21 15:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix freezing bug in curses console Matthew Bloch
2009-02-27 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-02-27 21:01   ` andrzej zaborowski
2009-02-27 21:04     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-28 21:21       ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-03-01 11:36         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-03-01 13:03           ` Paul Brook
2009-03-01 14:07             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-03-02 16:57               ` Jamie Lokier

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