On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:54:45AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:41:19AM -0200, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > > KVM vcpu threads should block SIGUSR1, set the in-kernel signal mask 
> > > with KVM_SET_SIGNAL_MASK ioctl, and eat the signal in
> > > qemu_wait_io_event (qemu_flush_work should run after eating
> > > the signal). Similarly to qemu-kvm's kvm_main_loop_wait.
> > > 
> > > Otherwise a vcpu thread can lose a signal (say handle SIGUSR1 when not
> > > holding qemu_global_mutex before kernel entry).
> > > 
> > > I think this the source of the problems patch 8 attempts to fix.
> > 
> > I remember you had patches for both theses fixes.
> 
> Only qemu_wait_io_event split.
> 
> > Can you resend them, ontop of this series?
> 
> There is not much sense to split qemu_wait_io_event after what your
> patch set does (it should be split before).

What's the difference here?



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