From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, 陳韋任 <chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Multi-threaded user program support?
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:19:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4E8CF4.80605@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_u3YHmvwAUN-grbNVCWbgxAjrPb2ZDM8_=o_PMhAGv+g@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/18/2011 08:13 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 19 August 2011 03:59, 陳韋任 <chenwj@iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
>>> More generally and not x86-specific, there are problems with
>>> the multithreaded user-mode support which I suspect exist because
>>> nobody has ever sat down and worked out a coherent design for it,
>>> including what might need to be thread-local and what locking
>>> is required. So the result is that it mostly works but if you
>>
>> You mean some QEMU data structures need to be thread-local or lock
>> protected in order to emulate guest multi-threaded program correctly?
>
> Approximately, yes (the third option being "redesign the data
> structure so it can be sensibly protected"). See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/668799 for discussion of
> one example.
I suspect that to make things tractable for i386, which has so
many LOCKable instructions, that we'll also have to implement
at least a compare-and-swap primitive in TCG.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-19 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-18 2:35 [Qemu-devel] Multi-threaded user program support? 陳韋任
2011-08-18 3:00 ` Peter Maydell
2011-08-19 2:59 ` 陳韋任
2011-08-19 3:13 ` Peter Maydell
2011-08-19 16:19 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2011-08-20 2:35 ` 陳韋任
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