From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Bug 1675108 <1675108@bugs.launchpad.net>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1675108] [NEW] Cocoa UI always crashes on startup
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:18:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sti694y.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1490621384.31035.30.camel@redhat.com>
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:
> On Do, 2017-03-23 at 11:31 +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>>
>> > On 23 March 2017 at 11:13, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
>> >> Technically its not a random thread its the vCPU context (which ensures
>> >> the vCPU isn't updating while the display is being updated). But I guess
>> >> the Cocoa is limited to not being able to update from an arbitrary
>> >> thread?
>> >
>> > Yes. It's very common for windowing libraries to mandate that you
>> > do all windowing operations from one specific thread.
>>
>> Fair enough. Well let me know if that works OK on MacOS and I'll fold it
>> in to the other console patches. In fact I might as well do the
>> start/end_exclusive dance for all OSes and it will achieve the same thing.
>
> Where do we stand with this one?
I've got two patches in my tree at the moment. I was holding off posting
the series to see if I could make more progress with the record/replay
bug. I'll post the series tomorrow morning but if you want to grab them
ahead of that see:
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/commit/6c0ddfc5752f311b4c5a2956de25821cc2cd3fd6
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/commit/15d2b05a20879017f20370b71d5d144947b693fe
--
Alex Bennée
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-27 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-22 17:26 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1675108] [NEW] Cocoa UI always crashes on startup Brendan Shanks
2017-03-23 9:46 ` Peter Maydell
2017-03-23 11:13 ` Alex Bennée
2017-03-23 11:16 ` Peter Maydell
2017-03-23 11:31 ` Alex Bennée
2017-03-27 13:29 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-03-27 15:18 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2017-03-27 15:19 ` Peter Maydell
2017-03-24 6:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1675108] " Brendan Shanks
2017-03-24 7:52 ` Alex Bennée
2017-03-24 6:38 ` Brendan Shanks
2017-03-27 18:52 ` Brendan Shanks
2017-03-27 19:25 ` Alex Bennée
2017-03-29 17:50 ` Brendan Shanks
[not found] <mailman.60832.1490268929.22740.qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
2017-03-24 1:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1675108] [NEW] " Programmingkid
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