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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Emilio Cota <cota@braap.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tcg: use QTree instead of GTree
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:34:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y76s1VNBUYwlpIGo@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230111035536.309885-3-cota@braap.org>

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 10:55:36PM -0500, Emilio Cota wrote:
> qemu-user can hang in a multi-threaded fork. One common
> reason is that when creating a TB, between fork and exec
> we manipulate a GTree whose memory allocator (GSlice) is
> not fork-safe.

BTW, I just checked latest glib status

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/1079

it appears they're pretty close to deciding to delete the
GSlice impl and always use system malloc.

So if we do take this patch series it'll hopefully be a time
limited thing to carry. 


With regards,
Daniel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-11 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-11  3:55 [PATCH 0/2] fix for #285 Emilio Cota
2023-01-11  3:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] util: import GTree as QTree Emilio Cota
2023-01-11 12:08   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-01-29 22:28     ` Emilio Cota
2023-01-11  3:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] tcg: use QTree instead of GTree Emilio Cota
2023-01-11 12:10   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-01-29 22:32     ` Emilio Cota
2023-01-11 12:34   ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2023-01-25 15:58     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-01-29 22:38       ` Emilio Cota
2023-01-30  9:27         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-01-30 19:09           ` Richard Henderson
2023-02-05 16:41             ` Emilio Cota
2023-01-11 12:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] fix for #285 Daniel P. Berrangé

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