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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: agraf@suse.de, aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	avi@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/11] qemu_flush_work for remote vcpu execution
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:54:45 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091202135445.GA526@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091202134119.GK22678@mothafucka.localdomain>

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:41:19AM -0200, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > KVM vcpu threads should block SIGUSR1, set the in-kernel signal mask 
> > with KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK ioctl, and eat the signal in
> > qemu_wait_io_event (qemu_flush_work should run after eating
> > the signal). Similarly to qemu-kvm's kvm_main_loop_wait.
> > 
> > Otherwise a vcpu thread can lose a signal (say handle SIGUSR1 when not
> > holding qemu_global_mutex before kernel entry).
> > 
> > I think this the source of the problems patch 8 attempts to fix.
> 
> I remember you had patches for both theses fixes.

Only qemu_wait_io_event split.

> Can you resend them, ontop of this series?

There is not much sense to split qemu_wait_io_event after what your
patch set does (it should be split before).

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-02 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-01 12:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/11] Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/11] Don't mess with halted state Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] store thread-specific env information Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] update halted state on mp_state sync Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51       ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/11] qemu_flush_work for remote vcpu execution Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/11] tell kernel about all registers instead of just mp_state Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51           ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/11] flush state in migration post_load Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51             ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/11] Don't call kvm cpu reset on initialization Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/11] use cpu_kick instead of direct signalling Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51                 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/11] Use per-cpu reset handlers Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51                   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/11] Use __thread where available Glauber Costa
2009-12-01 12:51                     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/11] remove smp restriction from kvm Glauber Costa
2009-12-02 10:48           ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/11] tell kernel about all registers instead of just mp_state Gleb Natapov
2009-12-02 11:22             ` Glauber Costa
2009-12-02 12:10               ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-12-02 12:26                 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-02 12:35                   ` Jan Kiszka
2009-12-02 13:27         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/11] qemu_flush_work for remote vcpu execution Marcelo Tosatti
2009-12-02 13:41           ` Glauber Costa
2009-12-02 13:54             ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2009-12-02 14:01               ` Glauber Costa
2009-12-02 10:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/11] Gleb Natapov
2009-12-02 12:00   ` Glauber Costa
2009-12-02 12:04   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-12-02 12:22     ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-02 12:25       ` Jan Kiszka
2009-12-02 12:30         ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-02 12:33           ` Jan Kiszka
2009-12-02 12:49             ` Gleb Natapov
2009-12-03  7:33     ` Gleb Natapov

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