On Nov 13, 2007 11:42 PM, Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > I've been experimenting with creating IO threads for the PV device
> > drivers.  Unfortunately, my experiments haven't gotten very far as QEMU
> > tends to hang up a bit into booting the guest whenever I spawn a thread
> > that does any sort of read/write on a file descriptor.  My suspicion is
> > that it has something to do with signals being delivered to the wrong
> > thread but after masking out all the signals for this thread, I still
> > had no luck.
> >
> Maybe you set the mask too late? try setting it before creating the thread:
>  sigfillset(&thread_sig_mask);
>  sigdelset(&thread_sig_mask,SIGILL);
>  sigdelset(&thread_sig_mask,SIGFPE);
>  sigdelset(&thread_sig_mask,SIGSEGV);

When using RTC or HPET for timing you also need to mask SIGIO; you may
also need to change F_SETOWN (enable_sigio_timer) with the correct
thread id, i.e.:

fcntl(fd, F_SETOWN, gettid());

Luca

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