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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Move graphic-related coalesced MMIO flushes to affected device models
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:40:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9DAC02.4040208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9D8D81.308@redhat.com>

On 10/18/2011 04:30 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> This takes a while to reproduce, let me talk to gdb for a bit.
>

a vcpu exit causes kvm_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer() to run, which does
a bitblt, which is cirrus_do_copy(), which goes to vga_hw_update, which
does vga_update_display(), which calls
qemu_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer(), which is not reentrant.

It's easy to make qemu_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer reentrant:

  if (s->coalesced_flush_in_progress) {
      return;
  }

it isn't very pretty and is also a lie.  Other ideas?

I'll probably commit this soon to avoid the regression, to be replaced
by a better fix when we find it.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-18 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-30 10:31 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Move graphic-related coalesced MMIO flushes to affected device models Jan Kiszka
2011-10-15 21:35 ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-18 14:00 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-18 14:05   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 14:08     ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-18 14:10       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 14:30         ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-18 16:40           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-10-18 16:49             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 17:34               ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-18 19:50                 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-19  9:04                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-19 11:18                     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 18:06               ` Alon Levy

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