On 16.10.2012, at 21:33, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 17:00 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>> Thanks for looking at this - but in fact this is fixed by my patch
>>> entitled "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix some races in starting secondary
>>> threads" submitted back on August
On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 17:00 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Thanks for looking at this - but in fact this is fixed by my patch
> > entitled "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix some races in starting secondary
> > threads" submitted back on August 28.
>
> OK thanks. It seems that patch didn't make 3.7 ?
>
On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 14:13 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Michael,
>
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:15:50AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > In the Book3s HV code, kvmppc_run_core() has logic to grab the secondary
> > threads of the physical core.
> >
> > If for some reason a thread is stuck, kv
Michael,
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:15:50AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> In the Book3s HV code, kvmppc_run_core() has logic to grab the secondary
> threads of the physical core.
>
> If for some reason a thread is stuck, kvmppc_grab_hwthread() can fail,
> but currently we ignore the failure an
In the Book3s HV code, kvmppc_run_core() has logic to grab the secondary
threads of the physical core.
If for some reason a thread is stuck, kvmppc_grab_hwthread() can fail,
but currently we ignore the failure and continue into the guest. If the
stuck thread is in the kernel badness ensues.
Inste
