From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>,
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-thread-posix: Fix build against older glibc version
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:35:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140311203534.GA11606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_r=FcvS0SERyPh75r2x7Qxs6LiBrAO4o+n6bCcJ1vLGQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 08:27:58PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 11 March 2014 20:03, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Because we don't want people to start relying on thread naming to
> > manage the threads outside qemu.
>
> Then document that it isn't stable; anybody who relies
> on it deserves what they get.
> If we put a command line
> argument on it then people will still be able to incorrectly
> rely on thread naming by using the command line option.
Where would you document this?
The idea was that "debug" in name is a hint.
> > There also can be existing tools that would break if
> > we changed thread names.
>
> In this case surely we are already stuck with our current
> threading model? I would be anyway happy to say "you
> relied on undefined and unstable behaviour so tough"...
>
> On the other hand, a new command line switch really is
> user interface which we have to carry around and support
> for ever.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-09 19:19 [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 00/14] acpi,pc,pci,virtio,memory bug fixes Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 01/14] acpi-build: append description for non-hotplug Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 02/14] acpi-test-data: update expected files Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 03/14] virtio-net: remove function calls from assert Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 04/14] memory_region_present: return false if address is not found in child MemoryRegion Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 05/14] PCIE: fix regression with coldplugged multifunction device Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 06/14] Rework --name to use QemuOpts Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 07/14] Add 'debug-threads' suboption to --name Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 08/14] Add a 'name' parameter to qemu_thread_create Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-11 15:31 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-03-11 15:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-thread-posix: Fix build against older glibc version Jan Kiszka
2014-03-11 16:10 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-11 16:13 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-11 16:20 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-11 16:36 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-11 17:51 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-11 18:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-11 19:46 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-11 19:53 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-11 20:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-11 20:27 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-11 20:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2014-03-11 20:39 ` Eric Blake
2014-03-11 20:04 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-04-02 14:18 ` Ed Maste
2014-04-02 15:38 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-11 18:08 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-11 19:02 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-11 15:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 08/14] Add a 'name' parameter to qemu_thread_create Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-09 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 09/14] MAINTAINERS: drop an out of date address Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 10/14] acpi-test: retain both asl and aml files on failure Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 11/14] acpi-test: issue errors instead of warnings when possible Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 12/14] pam: partly fix write-only mode Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 13/14] pckbd: return 'keyboard enabled' on read input port command Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-09 19:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 14/14] qemu: x86: ignore ioapic polarity Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-10 15:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 00/14] acpi, pc, pci, virtio, memory bug fixes Peter Maydell
2014-03-10 19:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-11 10:55 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-11 11:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-11 11:32 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-11 11:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-11 12:09 ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-11 12:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-11 12:31 ` Peter Maydell
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