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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4 V10] Add ioctl for KVMCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 01/30/2012 05:32 PM, Eric B Munson wrote:
> > >
> > > Can you point me to the discussion that moved this to be a vm ioctl? In
> > > general vm ioctls that do things for all vcpus are racy, like here.
> > > You're accessing variables that are protected by the vcpu mutex, and not
> > > taking the mutex (nor can you, since it is held while the guest is
> > > running, unlike most kernel mutexes).
> > >
> >
> > Jan Kiszka suggested that becuase there isn't a use case for notifying
> > individual vcpus (can vcpu's be paused individually?
>
> They can, though the guest will grind to a halt very soon.
>
> > ) that it makes more sense
> > to have a vm ioctl.
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/131624
> >
> > If the per vcpu ioctl is the right choice I can resend those patches.
>
> The races are solvable but I think it's easier in userspace. It's also
> more flexible, though I don't really see a use for this flexibility.
>

Okay, I will rebase the per vcpu patches and resend those.

Eric
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