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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] qemu-kvm: Hook cleanups and
 extended use of upstream code
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:53:25AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This version addresses the feedback on v2, namely:
> - assert(<vm stopped> || <current thread == env->thread>) on low-level
>   load/save registers
> - fixed mpstate initialization
> 
> Yet untested is -no-kvm-irqchip with smp due to some bug in unpatched
> qemu-kvm or the kernel modules. Still investigating.

Don't recall it ever working properly. Guess that IPI emulation with
signals is problematic.

> 
> Pull URL is still
> 
> 	git://git.kiszka.org/qemu-kvm.git queues/vcpu-state
> 
> PS: The corresponding upstream queue is now available under
> queues/kvm-upstream in the same repository. Will send it out later if
> there are no further remarks on this series to avoid flooding the
> mailing lists. Early testers are nevertheless welcome.

Can the necessary changes for cleanups go in qemu.git first, so after
they're merged in qemu-kvm, we can apply the unification patches.

And later do the same with synchronization rework (API looks fine to
me).

Nice work!