Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:44:02 +0000 | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 14/21] Xen-paravirt: Add XEN config options and disable unsupported config options. | From | Keir Fraser <> |
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On 16/2/07 10:19, "Zachary Amsden" <zach@vmware.com> wrote:
> Doesn't stop_machine_run already take care of getting you out of all > kernel threads? So you can only be sleeping, not preempted, in which > case, this might not be an issue?
It ensures that no (non-stopmachine) threads are running on any of the other CPUs, but it doesn't guarantee that all threads are at any form of quiescent point. They can certainly have private references to machine addresses.
Otherwise, what would be the point of the process freezer? :-)
-- Keir
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