Am 26.10.2011 18:02, schrieb Jan Kiszka: > On 2011-10-26 17:18, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 26 October 2011 16:13, Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote: >>> My point is that it is fine to use for per-vcpu variables because: >>> - they are single-threaded in TCG mode >>> - they are multi-threaded in KVM mode, but that's only affecting Linux >>> hosts for which this TLS wrapper is already usable >> >> Oh, I see. Feel free to suggest reworded comment text :-) > > /* Dummy implementations -- we can get away with this because > * - we confine the use to per-VCPU variables > * - only linux-user supports multiple VCPU threads > * - TCG system mode is single-threaded regarding VCPUs
> * - KVM system mode is multi-threaded but limited to Linux There was a port of KVM to illumos-derived SmartOS. But I don't see an easy way to error out on non-Linux KVM hosts without breaking TCG, too. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
